The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Team welcomes you to the AMS-02 website.   We are an international group of scientists, from 16 countries and 3 continents: you can find us in the Who’s who page. We have been working together since 15 years at one of the most complex scientific instruments ever built to be operated in space. One hundred years after the discovery of Victor Hess of an energetic radiation coming from the depth of space, the “cosmic rays”, AMS-02

AMS-02 took possession of his new home, a big clean room at the Kennedy’s Space Station Processing Facility. The SSPF is one of the most important facilities of the KSC. It’s a very big three story structure (over 42.000 sq. mt) that houses bays for the horizontal processing of components for the International Space Station and other Space Shuttle payloads. This means that presently, as the ISS assembly is nearly finished, the two bays are nearly empty, the last payloads

On August 26th, at 11:18, the C5-M landed on the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility. The landing was incredibly smooth, almost impossible to feel the touch down. The first pilot, Michael Cory, gave us this historical document, the strip of paper with the landing data. 1st Lt. Kathleen Ferrero from Headquarters Air Mobility Command (AMC) Public Affairs wrote this nice article, telling the story of a flight which has been somewhat unique also from the AMC point of view. Our baby has been safely delivered

Today August 25th, at 16:01, the AMS-02 experiment has been successfully loaded into the the C5-M cargo. Nearly 40 tons of additional hardware will accompany the payload to KSC. Tomorrow, August 26th, at 7:00 am the C5-M will leave with a crew of 15 AF members and 35 AMS scientists from the Geneva airport, destination the KSC Shuttle landing strip.

By midnight, august 20, the extensive AMS-02  test beam calibration has been completed. At 9 am on the following day the experiment has been extracted from the test beam area and transported into he structure which will host it while traveling to KSC. The scientists are now busy analyzing the data collected, in particular to accurately  perform  the  alignment of  the  tracker planes; the results confirm that with the  new tracker and magnet configuration the experiment exhibits  almost identical  measuring