Testing General Relativity with Satellite Laser Ranging: Recent Developments

Abstract

In this paper the most recent developments in testing General Relativity in the gravitational field of the Earth with the technique of Satellite Laser Ranging are presented. In particular, we concentrate our attention on some gravitoelectric and gravitomagnetic post--Newtonian orbital effects on the motion of a test body in the external field of a central mass.

Latex2e, 10 pages, no figures, no tables. Paper presented at COSPAR2002 conference held in Houston, TX, from 10 October 2002 to 19 October 2002. To appear in Advance in Space Research. References added and updated

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