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most citedThe MICROSCOPE mission: first results of a space test of the Equivalence Principle

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gr-qc2022★ 35 cited

Result of the MICROSCOPE Weak Equivalence Principle test

Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris, Manuel Rodrigues +44

The space mission MICROSCOPE dedicated to the test of the Equivalence Principle (EP) operated from April 25, 2016 until the deactivation of the satellite on October 16, 2018. In th…

gr-qc2022★ 216 cited

MICROSCOPE mission: final results of the test of the Equivalence Principle

Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris, Manuel Rodrigues +44

The MICROSCOPE mission was designed to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), stating the equality between the inertial and the gravitational masses, with a precision of $10^{-…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 15 cited

MICROSCOPE Mission scenario, ground segment and data processing

Manuel Rodrigues, Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris +9

Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) to a precision of requires a quantity of data that give enough confidence on the final result: ideally, the longer the measu…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

MICROSCOPE: systematic errors

Manuel Rodrigues, Pierre Touboul1, Gilles Metris +19

The MICROSCOPE mission aims to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) in orbit with an unprecedented precision of 10 on the Eötvös parameter thanks to electrostatic acce…

physics.space-ph2019★ 26 cited

New test of Lorentz invariance using the MICROSCOPE space mission

Hélène Pihan-le Bars, Christine Guerlin, Aurélien Hees +11

We use data from the T-SAGE instrument on board the MICROSCOPE space mission to search for Lorentz violation in matter-gravity couplings as described by the Lorentz violating Stand…

astro-ph.IM2018

The Nice Cube (Nice3) nanosatellite project

F. Millour, S. Ottogalli, M. Maamri +28

CubeSats are tiny satellites with increasing capabilities. They have been used for more than a decade by universities to train students on space technologies, in a hands-on project…