Flight experience on CHAMP and GRACE with ultra-sensitive accelerometers and return for LISA

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May 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003cqgra..20s.291r&link_type=abstract

Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 20, Issue 10, pp. S291-S300 (2003).

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The challenging drag-free sensor of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is derived from electrostatic accelerometers developed for a long time in ONERA. The LISA sensor includes a gold platinum alloy inertial mass free-floating in space and used as reflectors for the laser interferometer. This test mass should not undergo more than 3 × 10-15 m s-2 Hz-1/2 acceleration at 0.1 mHz. This tremendous performance is not close to what has been reached so far, but should be approached within one order of magnitude with the projected SMART-2 ESA mission by 2006. Meanwhile, ONERA has participated in several space missions with the flight of increasingly sensitive accelerometers. The German CHAMP mission aims at mapping the Earth's magnetic and gravity fields. More than two years data have been accumulated showing a resolution better than 3 × 10-9 m s-2 Hz-1/2 for the accelerometer. With the JPL/NASA GRACE mission launched in March 2002, even more sensitive measurements have been obtained. From these two flight experiments with electrostatic sensors very similar in concept to that of LISA, the accelerometric environment on board a satellite is discussed at nanogravity levels. It is also shown that these first analyses are compatible with the expected LISA performance when the results are extrapolated to the LISA environment, needing femto-gravity levels.

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