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Astrodynamical Space Test of Relativity using Optical Devices I (ASTROD I) - A class-M fundamental physics mission proposal for Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
Thierry Appourchaux, Raymond Burston, Yanbei Chen +33
ASTROD I is a planned interplanetary space mission with multiple goals. The primary aims are: to test General Relativity with an improvement in sensitivity of over 3 orders of magn…
Directly Measured Limit on the Interplanetary Matter Density from Pioneer 10 and 11
Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev, John D. Anderson
The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft had exceptional deep-space navigational capabilities. The accuracies of their orbit reconstruction were limited, however, by a small, anomalous, Do…
Controlled Antihydrogen Propulsion for NASA's Future in Very Deep Space
Michael Martin Nieto, Michael H. Holzscheiter, Slava G. Turyshev
To world-wide notice, in 2002 the ATHENA collaboration at CERN (in Geneva, Switzerland) announced the creation of order 100,000 low energy antihydrogen atoms. Thus, the concept of…
Measuring the Interplanetary Medium with a Solar Sail
Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev
NASA has been considering a solar sail that would accelerate a craft to a high velocity (~ 14 AU/yr) by the time it reached 5 AU. Then the sail would be dropped and the craft would…
Testing the Strong Equivalence Principle with Mars Ranging Data
John D. Anderson, Mark Gross, Eunice L. Lau +2
The year 1996 will mark the initiation of a number of new space missions to the planet Mars from which we expect to obtain a rich set of data, including spacecraft radio tracking d…
Radio Science Investigation on a Mercury Orbiter Mission
J. D. Anderson, S. G. Turyshev, S. W. Asmar +6
We review the results from {\it Mariner 10} regarding Mercury's gravity field and the results from radar ranging regarding topography. We discuss the implications of improving thes…