LARES: A New Satellite Specifically Designed for Testing General Relativity

Table 2

Characteristics of laser ranged satellites. (M/S)_Satellite/(M/S)_LAGEOS, that is, the values of mass-to-surface ratio, are normalized with respect to that of LAGEOS.

	LARES	LAGEOS	LAGEOS 2	STELLA	STARLETTE
Mass (kg)	386.8	407	405	48	47
Radius (mm)	182	300	300	120	120
Number of CCRs	92	426	426	60	60
Normalized M/S Mass/surface	2.6	1	0.99	0.72	0.73
CCRs area/total area	26%	43%	43%	28%	28%
Unmodeled residual accel. (pm/s^2)	0.4	1-2	1-2	40	40