Despite this setback, in 2007 the Gravity Probe B team confirmed one prediction of general relativity. According to Einstein, the Earth’s gravity warps spacetime like a bowling ball on a trampoline.

The payload is made up of the dewar, the key structural component around which the GP-B space vehicle was built, and the flight probe, a nine-foot-long cigar-shaped vacuum chamber.

NASA's Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test. The experiment ...

Gravity Probe B — a NASA mission to test two important predictions of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity — launched Tuesday, April 20.

A NASA probe orbiting Earth has confirmed two key predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes how gravity causes masses to warp space-time around them.

NASA researchers spent nearly 40 years on Gravity Probe B, a satellite designed to test some of Albert Einstein's theories. As the $700 million project winds down, NASA is rejecting a request for ...

Gravity Probe B is in NASA spacecraft processing facility 1610 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base. ... The Delta II payload adapter was mated to the GP-B spacecraft on Thursday, Nov. 13.

Yesterday, the space agency announced that Gravity Probe B is ready for launch April 17. Its goal is to help prove one of the most confounding […] Skip to content. All Sections.

From Space.com: After years of technical snags and costly delays, NASA's Gravity Probe B is scheduled for launch in April to test Einstein's theories.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 20, 2004 — NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) space vehicle, built, integrated and tested by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), roared into space this morning from Vandenberg Air ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test ...