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Old 28-April-2008, 08:06 PM
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GP-B Program Extended Through September 2008, and Possibly March 2010

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Originally Posted by Stanford
On November 2, 2007, we convened the 17th meeting of our external Science Advisory Committee (SAC) to review our progress in the refinement of the GP-B experimental results. The subsequent SAC report noted "the truly extraordinary progress that had been made in data analysis since SAC-16 [March 23-24, 2007]" and unanimously concluded "that GP-B is on an accelerating path toward reaching good science results."

Following a peer-reviewed bridging proposal to NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and actions by Stanford and a private donor, the GP-B program has been extended at least through September 2008.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/highlights/status1.html

...and possibly through 2010? Without releasing any concrete information as to whether the current data set is consistent with General Relativity or not? This program is already more than forty years old - we could all die before anything concrete is published!
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