no code implementations • 22 Feb 2021 • Ratana Chhun, Emilie Hardy, Manuel Rodrigues, Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris, Damien Boulanger, Bruno Christophe, Pascale Danto, Bernard Foulon, Pierre-Yves Guidotti, Phuong-Anh Huynh, Vincent Lebat, Françoise Liorzou, Alain Robert
Since the MICROSCOPE instrument aims to measure accelerations as low as a few 10$^{-15}$\, m\, s$^{-2}$ and cannot operate on ground, it was obvious to have a large time dedicated to its characterization in flight.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Instrumentation and Detectors
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Alain Robert, Valerio Cipolla, Pascal Prieur, Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris, Manuel Rodrigues, Yves André, Joel Bergé, Damien Boulanger, Ratana Chhun, Bruno Christophe, Pierre-Yves Guidotti, Emilie Hardy, Vincent Lebat, Thomas Lienart, Françoise Liorzou, Benjamin Pouilloux
This paper focus on the description of the design and performance of the MICROSCOPE satellite and its Drag-Free and Attitude Control System (DFACS).
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Space Physics
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Pierre Touboul, Manuel Rodrigues, Gilles Métris, Ratana Chhun, Alain Robert, Quentin Baghi, Emilie Hardy, Joel Bergé, Damien Boulanger, Bruno Christophe, Valerio Cipolla, Bernard Foulon, Pierre-Yves Guidotti, Phuong-Anh Huynh, Vincent Lebat, Françoise Liorzou, Benjamin Pouilloux, Pascal Prieur, Serge Reynaud
The MICROSCOPE mission aimed to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) to a precision of $10^{-15}$.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 2018 2018 • Phuong-Anh Huynh, Françoise Liorzou, Damien Boulanger, Bruno Christophe, Marine Dalin, and Vincent Lebat ONERA, Châtillon, France (phuong-anh.huynh@onera.fr)
The GRACE FO mission, led by the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), is an Earth-orbiting gravity mission, continuation of the GRACE mission, which will produce an accurate model of the Earth’s gravity field variation providing global climatic data during five years at least.
