High-precision electrostatic accelerometers have achieved remarkable success in satellite
Earth gravity field recovery missions. Ultralow-noise inertial sensors play important roles in …

The twin satellites of the GRACE (Gravity field recovery and climate experiment) mission are
equipped with three-axes capacitive accelerometers measuring the non-gravitational …

The electrostatic space accelerometers mounted on board the three satellites of the two last
geodesy missions, CHAMP [C. Reiberg, CHAMP a challenging micro-satellite payload for …

The ultra-sensitive accelerometer onboard low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite can measure the
non-gravitational accelerations acting on the satellite in an adequate range and frequency …

The detection of gravitational waves at frequencies below 10 mHz requires a reference
sensor of the spaceborne inertial system with unprecedented residual acceleration and an …

The first Chinese cargo spacecraft, named Tianzhou-1, provides a very quiet and stable
environment to test space accelerometers. In this study, the high-precision electrostatic …

A three-axis micromachined accelerometer with a proof mass suspended electrostatically in
six degrees of freedom was designed and tested to evaluate its performance of this sensitive …

A micromachined electrostatically-suspended accelerometer (MESA) is a kind of three-axis
inertial sensor based on fully-contactless electrostatic suspension of the proof mass (PM). It …

High-precision inertial sensors are the key instruments for many applications. However, their
performance is difficult to test on the ground due to the effect of seismic noise. To evaluate …

The residual gas damping of the test mass (TM) in the free molecular flow regime is studied
in the finite open systems for high-precision gravity-related experiments. Through strict …