A quick test of the WEP enabled by a sounding rocket

@article{Reasenberg2010AQT,
  title={A quick test of the WEP enabled by a sounding rocket},
  author={Robert D. Reasenberg and Enrico C. Lorenzini and Bijunath R. Patla and James D. Phillips and E. Popescu and Emanuele Rocco and Rajesh Thapa},
  journal={Classical and Quantum Gravity},
  year={2010},
  volume={28},
  pages={094014}
}
We describe SR-POEM, a Galilean test of the weak equivalence principle (WEP), which is to be conducted during the free fall portion of a sounding rocket flight. This test of a single pair of substances is aimed at a measurement uncertainty of σ(η) < 10–16 after averaging the results of eight separate drops, each of 40 s duration. The WEP measurement is made with a set of four laser gauges that are expected to achieve 0.1 pm Hz–1/2. We address the two sources of systematic error that are… 
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