  We introduce the LARES 2 space experiment recently approved by the Italian
Space Agency (ASI). The LARES 2 satellite is planned for launch in 2019 with
the new VEGA C launch vehicle of ASI, ESA and ELV. The orbital analysis of
LARES 2 experiment will be carried out by our international science team of
experts in General Relativity, theoretical physics, space geodesy and aerospace
engineering. The main objectives of the LARES 2 experiment are gravitational
and fundamental physics, including accurate measurements of General Relativity,
in particular a test of frame-dragging aimed at achieving an accuracy of a few
parts in a thousand, i.e., aimed at improving by about an order of magnitude
the present state-of-the-art and forthcoming tests of this general relativistic
phenomenon. LARES 2 will also achieve determinations in space geodesy. LARES 2
is an improved version of the LAGEOS 3 experiment, proposed in 1984 to measure
frame-dragging and analyzed in 1989 by a joint ASI and NASA study.
