Origins of the Gravity Probe B Experiment & Drag-free Satellites
- On Experimental Test of the General Theory of Relativity
L. I. Schiff. American Journal of Physics, April 1960 (submitted October 1959), pp. 340-343.
- Proposal for a Satellite Test of the Coriolis Prediction of General Relativity
G. E. Pugh. Reprinted in Nonlinear Gravitodynamics, The Lense Thirring Effect, a documentary introduction to current research.
Editors: Remo J. Ruffini, Costantino Sigismondi, 2002, pp. 414-425. Orininally Published as U.S. Department of Defense Weapons
Systems Evaluation Group Research Memorandum No. 11, 1959.
- Possible New Experimental Test of General Relativity Theory
L. I. Schiff. Physical Review Letters, Vol 4, Number 5, March 1960, pp. 215-217.
- Motion of a Gyroscope According to Einstein's Theory of Gravitation
L. I. Schiff. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 46,
June 1960, pp. 871-882.
- Proceedings of the July 1961 Conference on Experimental Tests of Theories of Relativity
Held at Stanford University, July 20-21, 1961 and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Space Sciences, headed by Dr. Nancy G. Roman, Chief of Astronomy, Solar Physics, Geophsics, and Relativity programs. The conference was chaired by H. P. Robertson, Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and participants included over 30 well-known authorities in physics and aerospace engineering.
- Requirements and Design for a Special Gyro for Measuring General Relativity Effects from an Astronomical Satellite
Robert H. Cannon, Jr., Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, 1962. Published in the Proceedings of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Kreiselproleme Gyrodynamics, Symposium Celerina, August 20-23, 1962, pp 145-157. Copyright © 1963, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
- The Control and Use of Drag-Free Satellites
Benjamin Lange, Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford University Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Paper #194, June, 1964.
- The Drag-Free Satellite (Drag free satellite design and use, analyzing control and guidance system with respect to system performance
and gas usage)
Benjamin Lange. American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Journal (AIAA), Volume 2, Number 9, Septermber 1964, pp. 1590-1606.
- A Satellite Freed of all but Gravitational Forces: "TRIAD I"
Staff of the Space Department, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD AND Staff of the Guidance and Control Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Journal (AIAA), Volume 11, Number 9, September 1974, pp. 637-644.
- The Stanford Relativity Gyroscope Experiment: History and Overview
C. W. F. Everitt, Excerpt from the book, Near Zero: New Frontiers of Physics
. Chapter VI, Section 3A. Edited by J.D. Fairbank, B.S Deaver,
Jr., C.W.F. Everitt, & P.F. Michelson, Copyright © 1988, W. H. Freeman & Company, New York.
- The Stanford Relativity Gyroscope Experiment: Translation and Orientation Control
Daniel B. De Bra, Excerpt from the book, Near Zero: New Frontiers of Physics
. Chapter VI, Section 3G. Edited by J.D. Fairbank, B.S Deaver, Jr., C.W.F. Everitt, & P.F. Michelson, Copyright © 1988, W. H. Freeman & Company, New York.
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