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In 2008 a group of NASA scientists reported an anomalous change in the speed of six spacecraft flybys of the Earth. The reported speed change for the NEAR spacecraft flyby is 13.46+-0.01 mm/s. It is known that general relativity theory…

General Physics · Physics 2011-03-01 J. C. Hafele

We propose the concept of a space mission to probe the so called flyby anomaly, an unexpected velocity change experienced by some deep-space probes using earth gravity assists. The key feature of this proposal is the use of GNSS systems to…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 O. Bertolami , F. Francisco , P. J. S. Gil , J. Páramos

We report results on an ``one-way light path'' laser diffraction experiment as a function of the laser beam alignment relative to the Earth's velocity vector obtained by COBE measurements of the Doppler shift in the cosmic microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. E. Navia , C. R. A. Augusto

We review the fundamental results of a new cosmological model, based on conformal gravity, and apply them to the analysis of the early data of the Pioneer anomaly. We show that our conformal cosmology can naturally explain the anomalous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-22 Gabriele U. Varieschi

The Pioneer anomaly is a small sunward anomalous acceleration found in the trajectory analysis of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. As part of the investigation of the effect, analysis of recently recovered Doppler data for both spacecraft…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-22 Slava G. Turyshev , Viktor T. Toth , Jordan Ellis , Craig B. Markwardt

Analysis of radio-metric tracking data from the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft at distances between 20 - 70 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun has consistently indicated the presence of an anomalous, small, constant Doppler frequency drift. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Michael Martin Nieto , Slava G. Turyshev

The reported anomalous acceleration of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft of -8.5X10^{-10} m/s^2 (i.e. towards the sun) can be explained by a gravitational interaction on the S-band signals traveling between Pioneer 10 and the earth. The effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David F. Crawford

The nonsymmetric gravitational theory leads to a modified acceleration law that can at intermediate distance ranges account for the anomalous acceleration experienced by the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

Because of their unique designs, the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft have provided the cleanest Doppler, deep-space navigation data. Analysis of this data can be interpreted as showing an anomalous acceleration of these craft directed towards…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Michael Martin Nieto , John D. Anderson , Philip A. Laing , Eunice L. Lau , Slava G. Turyshev

In special relativity, testing for spatial anisotropy usually means testing for anisotropic propagation of light. This paper explores a different possibility, in which light is still assumed to propagate isotropically in all frames with an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-11-21 Alon Drory

The Doppler-tracking data of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft show an unmodelled constant acceleration in the direction of the inner Solar System. An overview of the phenomenon, commonly dubbed the Pioneer anomaly, is given and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Rathke

The measurement of the Compton edge of the scattered electrons in GRAAL facility in European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble with respect to the Cosmic Microwave Background dipole reveals up to 10 sigma variations larger…

Searches for anisotropies due to Earth's motion relative to a preferred frame -- modern versions of the Michelson-Morley experiment -- provide precise verifications of special relativity. We describe other tests, independent of this motion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sidney Coleman , Sheldon L. Glashow

We specify the four kinds of rotational cosmologies that are avaliable in Theoretical Cosmology. NASA spacecrafts has suffered from three anomalies. The Pioneers spacecrafts were decelerated, and their spin when not disturbed, was…

General Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Marcelo Samuel Berman , Fernando de Mello Gomide

We propose here an explanation of the Pioneer anomaly which is not in conflict with the cartography of the solar system. In our model, the spaceship does not suffer any extra acceleration but follows the trajectory predicted by standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-03 Antonio F. Ranada , Alfredo Tiemblo

Recently, Anderson et al. published an empirical prediction formula for the so far unexplained parts of the velocity changes of spacecrafts during Earth flybys. In the framework of a perturbational approach, we show that there is no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-03 Wolfgang Hasse , Emrah Birsin , Philipp Haehnel

The Doppler tracking data from two deep-space spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11, show an anomalous blueshift, which has been dubbed the "Pioneer anomaly". The effect is most commonly interpreted as a real deceleration of the spacecraft - an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis Defrere , Andreas Rathke

Three experimental concepts investigating possible anisotropy of the speed of light are presented. They are based on i) beam deflection in a 180 degree magnetic arc, ii) narrow resonance production in an electron-positron collider, and iii)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 B. Wojtsekhowski

The analysis of the Pioneer 10 and 11 data demonstrated the presence of an anomalous Doppler frequency blue-shift drift which is interpreted as an anomalous acceleration. The Doppler frequency dirft follows by considering the motions of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Walter Petry

It is shown that the same phenomenological Newtonian model recently proposed by the author to explain the cosmological evolution of the fine structure constant suggests furthermore an explanation of the unmodelled acceleration $a_P\simeq…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-17 Antonio F. Ranada