Activation and Checkout Underway for Gravity Probe-B
Credit: WILLIAM G. HARTENSTEIN
Scientists and engineers at Stanford University are well into a 60-day in-orbit checkout and calibration period for NASA's Gravity Probe-B (GP-B) experiment after a near-perfect launch on Apr. 20. "The solar arrays are deployed, and we have received initial data that indicates all systems are...
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