To measure that, the four gyroscopes in Gravity Probe B are made of fused quartz spheres, which will not expand or contract as the temperature changes.
The indictment, unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors in San Francisco, is the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury investigating steroid use by elite athletes.
The probe was built with four reaction wheels and needs three of them -- one for each axis -- to aim its telescope precisely at a distant star, deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck said.
Hours later, more state lawmakers were identified in a federal probe that has resulted in four lawmakers charged in four weeks.
The CBI also searched the local offices of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland, as well as 12 other places, in four Indian cities in connection with the probe.
Back in New York, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has garnered banner headlines and much praise for his pay-to-play pension fund probe that has already led to four guilty pleas by investors and politicians.
King told CNN last week that four investigators were assigned to his committee's probe.
The probe has cast a shadow over the four-star general's distinguished military career, and delayed his appointment as Nato's next supreme allied commander, set for early 2013.
On Wednesday, President Bill Clinton asked Reno to probe the Arkansas shootings, in which four school children and a teacher died, and two other school shootings in Paducah, Ky.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety has investigated corruption complaints against town officials four times in the past two years and recently began a fifth probe of the police chief over the alleged false filing of a time sheet, a Department of Public Safety spokesman said.
The U.S.-led probe into the attacks has detained 80 people for questioning and has four people under arrest as material witnesses.
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Galileo's most remarkable discoveries, however, and the ones that dictated that it would eventually follow the probe's fiery fate, were made not about Jupiter itself, but (appropriately) about the four large Jovian moons discovered by Galileo Galilei, the 17th-century astronomer after whom the craft was named.
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