Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control

Download or read book Lasers, Clocks and Drag-Free Control written by Hansjörg Dittus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by international experts, this book explores the possibilities for the next 20 years in conducting gravitational experiments in space that would make the most of the new and much-improved existing capabilities. They start from the premise that over the next decade the gravitational physics community will benefit from dramatic improvements in many technologies critical to the tests of gravity. This volume contains a comprehensive presentation of the theory, technology, missions and projects on relativistic gravity in space.