Satellite Laser-Ranging as a Probe of Fundamental Physics

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Satellite laser-ranging is successfully used in space geodesy, geodynamics and Earth sciences; and to test fundamental physics and specific features of General Relativity. We present a confirmation to approximately one part in a billion of the fundamental weak equivalence principle (“uniqueness of free fall”) in the Earth’s gravitational field, obtained with three laser-ranged satellites, at previously untested range and with previously untested materials. The weak equivalence principle is at the foundation of General Relativity and of most gravitational theories.

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Ciufolini, I., Matzner, R., Paolozzi, A., Pavlis, E. C., Sindoni, G., Ries, J., … Koenig, R. (2019). Satellite Laser-Ranging as a Probe of Fundamental Physics. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52183-9

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