Successful Function Test: MICROSCOPE is Transmitting!
eventual lift-off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, on April 25, 2016. But all’s well that ends well, and everything was now running strictly according to plan. Following an initial calibration [...] fall over a two-year period, had been released from their locking device and the experiment was now well and truly under way. Up to that time, though, the ZARM team comprising Hanns Selig, Meike List, Benny