Würzburg 2018 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 8: Poster session (permanent)

GR 8.8: Poster

Mittwoch, 21. März 2018, 18:00–19:30, Phys-SR-SE2

MICROSCOPE: A space mission to test the Weak Equivalence Principle — Stefanie Bremer, Meike List, •Benny Rievers, and Hanns Selig — ZARM, Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm 2, 28359 Bremen

On the 25th of April the French space mission MICROSCOPE was launched. After the successful commissioning phase, scientific measurements started in December 2016 and are planned to be continued at least until January 2018. The goal of the MICROSCOPE mission is ambitious: The Weak Equivalence Principle is being tested with a precision never achieved before yielding the determination of the Eötvös parameter η with an accuracy of 10-15. Here we show details on the orbit and system modeling as well as on some aspects of data analysis.