In a previous article, we have reported on the first subpicometer interferometer flown in
space as part of ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission, and have shown the residual sensor noise …

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit : Prospects and Challenges
for Lorentz-Augmented Orbits Page 1 Prospects and Challenges for Lorentz-Augmented Orbits …

Chern-Simons modified gravity is a four-dimensional, effective theory that descends both
from string theory and loop quantum gravity, and that corrects the Einstein-Hilbert action by …

Planning is underway for several space-borne gravitational wave observatories to be built in
the next 10 to 20 years. Realistic and efficient forward modeling will play a key role in the …

We report on the development of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) experiment that will fly
onboard the LISA Pathfinder mission of the European Space Agency in 2008. We first …

We report on residual-gas damping of the motion of a macroscopic test mass enclosed in a
nearby housing in the molecular flow regime. The damping coefficient, and thus the …

The top-level requirement of the LISA Pathfinder mission is the verification of pure relative
free fall between two test masses with an accuracy of about 3× 10− 14 ms− 2 Hz− 1/2 in a …

The electrostatic space accelerometers mounted on board the three satellites of the two last
geodesy missions, CHAMP [C. Reiberg, CHAMP a challenging micro-satellite payload for …

The paper describes the progress toward a space-borne gravitational wave observatory and
its foreseeable science potential. In particular the paper describes the status of the LISA-like …

The interferometer of the LISA technology package (LTP) on SMART-2 is needed to verify
the performance of the gravitational sensors by monitoring the distance between two test …