
1) An interferometer 2) Interferometer 3) Russian space probe
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Soviet passive geodetic satellites; Etalon means `standard.” Each is spherical and covered with 306 antenna arrays, each array containing 14 corer cubes for laser reflection. Etalons were designed and launched to enable the complete characterization of Earth`s gravitational field at the altitude and...
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an interferometer consisting of two glass plates that reflect approximately half of each ray of light incident upon them and that are separated by a small, fixed distance: used to compare wavelengths and to study atomic spectra.
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