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In this note we comment on a recent paper by I. Ciufolini about the possibility of placing the proposed terrestrial artificial satellite LARES in a low altitude, nearly polar orbit in order to measure the general relativistic Lense–Thirring effect with its node. Ciufolini claims that, for a departure of 4∘ in the satellite's inclination i from the ideal polar configuration (i=90∘), the impact of the...
In this paper we investigate the opportunities offered by the new Earth gravity models from the dedicated CHAMP and, especially, GRACE missions to the project of measuring the general relativistic Lense–Thirring effect with a new Earth’s artificial satellite. It turns out that it would be possible to abandon the stringent, and expensive, requirements on the orbital geometry of the originally prosed...
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