{"id":2257,"date":"2022-09-23T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/?page_id=2257"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:36:24","slug":"lares-2-launched","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/collaborations2\/lares-2-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"LARES-2 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LARES-2 satellite was launched successfully from European Space Agency&#8217;s spaceport, Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, on July 13, 2022. It was launched at maiden flight of VEGA-C rocket.<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">LARES-2 (Laser Relativity Satellite) of Italian Space Agency is upgraded version of the LARES satellite currently in orbit; Principal investigator, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ignazio_Ciufolini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I.Ciufolini<\/a><\/span>, designer A.Paolozzi. LARES-2 is a 42 cm sphere covered in reflectors to be monitored by ground station lasers. The goal is measure to an high accuracy the frame dragging, or the Lense-Thirring effect predicted by General Relativity.<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prof Gurzadyan was present at the launch as of LARES team.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vega.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2255\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vega.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vega.jpg 876w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vega-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Vega-768x423.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LARES2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2252\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LARES2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LARES2.jpg 889w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LARES2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/LARES2-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2254\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/team-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/team-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/team-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/team-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/team.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arianespace-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2251\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arianespace-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arianespace-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arianespace-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arianespace-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arianespace-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p><!-- \/wp:freeform -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LARES-2 satellite was launched successfully from European Space Agency&#8217;s spaceport, Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, on July 13, 2022. It was launched at maiden flight of VEGA-C rocket. LARES-2 (Laser Relativity Satellite) of Italian Space Agency is upgraded version<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2043,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmo.yerphi.am\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}