Testing the Equivalence Principle on Earth and in space

GG: the s/c around the accelerometer (I)

• 97°.5 inclination

• 520 km altitude

• 0 eccentricity

Sun-synchronous rather than equatorial…..

Launch at good price with high latitude DNEPR russian rocket (former SS-18 missile, from Baikonour cosmodrome)

300 kg mass

spin axis (passive) stabilization