Testing the "Dark-Energy"-Dominated Cosmology via the Solar-System   Experiments
  The effect of "dark energy" (i.e. the Lambda-term in Einstein equations) is sought for at the interplanetary scales by comparing the rates of secular increase in the lunar orbit obtained by two different ways: (1) measured immediately by the laser ranging and (2) estimated independently from the deceleration of the Earth's proper rotation. The first quantity involves both the well-known effect of geophysical tides and the Kottler effect of Lambda-term (i.e. a kind of the "local" Hubble expansion), while the second quantity is associated only with the tidal influence. The difference between them, 2.2 +/- 0.3 cm/yr, can be attributed just to the local Hubble expansion with rate H_0^(loc) = 56 +/- 8 km/s/Mpc. Assuming that Hubble expansion is formed locally only by the uniformly distributed dark energy (Lambda-term), while globally also by a clumped substance (for the most part, the cold dark matter), the total (large-scale) Hubble constant should be H_0 = 65 +/- 9 km/s/Mpc. This is in reasonable agreement both with the commonly-accepted WMAP result, H_0 = 71 +/- 3.5 km/s/Mpc, and with the data on supernovae Ia distribution. The above coincidence can serve as one more argument in favor of the dark energy. 
Yu.V. Dumin (IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow   reg. & IPAM, University of California, Los Angeles)