CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
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Full Name
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Gravity Probe B
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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NASA
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Launch Date
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20 Apr 2004
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Mission Links
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EOL Date
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08 Dec 2010
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Orbit Period
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97.5 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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90 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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642 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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The overall objective is to provide two extremely precise new tests of Einstein's theory of gravity, namely the General Theory of Relativity (formulated in 1916 - it states that gravity affects time and distance, by stretching time and contracting distance in the presence of a gravitational field) by means of observations on gyroscopes in Earth orbit.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 1  )
CDDIS_SLR_predictions
No FedEO OpenSearch datasets found.
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