mission goals

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The reference telescope will focus on a star to calibrate results. It is hoped that the behaviour of the gyroscopes will verify Einstein's theory that space, time and matter merge into a continuum, which he called space-time, that curves around massive bodies, such as stars and planets. For example, it ...

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