French satellite puts Einstein to the test
by Stuart Clark from on (#1BBD8)
A Russian rocket carrying a French satellite to test a German theory is scheduled for launch on Friday. At 21:02 GMT, the Soyuz rocket will blast off from Kourou, Europe's spaceport in French Guiana, carrying the experiment.
Microscope, which stands for Micro-Satellite i trai(R)ni(C)e Compensi(C)e pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence, is designed to test the very heart of Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity, which gives us our best description yet of gravity.
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