Speaker
Joel Berge
(ONERA)
Description
MICROSCOPE is a French Space Agency scheduled for launch in 2016, that aims to test the Weak Equivalence Principle in space: one century after the publication of Einstein’s General Relativity, it could allow us to reveal a breach in the theory. Thanks to its cutting-edge-technology inertial sensors, it will allow us to measure the Eotvos parameter down to $10^{-15}$, two orders of magnitude better than the best current constraints. In this talk, I will motivate the science behind MICROSCOPE and present the mission. I will then summarize its status, with an emphasis on how we will tackle the data analysis challenges.
Primary author
Joel Berge
(ONERA)
