2011PhysicsOpen access

Finally, results from Gravity Probe B

Clifford M. Will

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Nearly fifty years after its inception, the Gravity Probe B satellite mission delivers the first measurements of how a spinning gyroscope precesses in the gravitational warping of spacetime.

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Nearly fifty years after its inception, the Gravity Probe B satellite mission delivers the first measurements of how a spinning gyroscope precesses in the gravitational warping of spacetime.

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Nearly fifty years after its inception, the Gravity Probe B satellite mission delivers the first measurements of how a spinning gyroscope precesses in the gravitational warping of spacetime.

Key concepts: Gyroscope, Satellite, Physics, Gravitation, Image warping, Spacetime, Geodesy, Spinning

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