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aliases:
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    lexicon: ceos
    term: 19
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=19
  - context: Mission
    lexicon: ceos
    term: LARES
    url: http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionindex.aspx#L
  - context: resource
    lexicon: dbpedia
    term: LARES_%28satellite%29
    url: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/LARES_%28satellite%29
cited_by: []
contributors:
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    id: 3735
    organization:
      country_code: IT
      display_name: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
      identifier: agenzia-spaziale-italiana
      name: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
      organization_type_identifier: national
      type: organization
      url: http://www.asi.it/en
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description: 'LARES is a low-cost Italian geodynamic satellite mission (managed by ASI) with a short development time that will enable achieving important scientific goals in gravitational physics, fundamental physics and Earth sciences fields. The program is a collaboration between ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Università di Roma, and Università di Lecce.'
description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/l/lares
display_name: laser-relativity-satellite
end_date: 2052-02-01T00:00:00
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identifier: laser-relativity-satellite
instruments:
  - description: Laser retroreflector
    description_attribution: Laser retroreflector
    identifier: laser-corner-cube-reflector-assembly
    name: Laser Corner Cube Reflector Assembly
    uri: /instrument/laser-corner-cube-reflector-assembly
name: LAser RElativity Satellite
parents: []
platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
references: []
start_date: 2012-02-13T00:00:00
type: platform
uri: /platform/laser-relativity-satellite
url: http://www.asi.it