The 4 test-masses of TSAGE have been released. Onera's team was in CNES Toulouse centre to activate the switch-on.
It was a great relief to see first the thin 7 µm gold wires safely and then to see the release of the test-masses.
They were just smartly controlled by electrostatic forces in order to follow the satellite.
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First Measurements of the accelerometers at the release instant.