Testing General Relativistic Predictions with the LAGEOS Satellites

Table 1

Rate (mas/yr) and orbital shift (over 14 days) of the different types of secular relativistic precession on LAGEOS and LAGEOS II longitude of ascending node and argument of pericenter, and their sum (1 mas/yr = 1 milli—arc—second per year).

	Precession	Rate (mas/yr)	Shift (m)
LAGEOS	Δ𝜔̇^Schw	3278.77	7.49
	ΔΩ̇^LT	30.88	7.46×10^−2
	Δ𝜔̇^LT	32.00	7.31×10^−2
LAGEOS II	Δ𝜔̇^Schw	3351.95	7.60
	ΔΩ̇^LT	31.48	7.14×10^−2
	Δ𝜔̇^LT	−57.00	−1.29×10^−1