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TVT TEST SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED

April 15th, 2010

After nearly two months of testing at ESTEC, the qualification tests of the AMS experiment have been completed. Today the TV chamber will return to ambient conditions and starting in the weekend the experiment will be prepared for extraction from the TV chamber and then packed for tansportation.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for antimatter, dark matter while performing precision measurements of cosmic rays composition and flux. The AMS-02 observations will help answer fundamental questions, such as "What makes up the universe's invisible mass?" or "What happened to the primordial antimatter?"

INSIDE THE C-5M SUPER GALAXY

INTO AMS-02

TIME ELAPSED AFTER LAUNCH

367 days 1 hour 9 minutes 41 seconds

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NEWS ARCHIVES

AMS

Goals and characteristics of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

ANTIMATTER

It was very abundant at the beginning of time: where is today? The disappearance of antimatter is one of the big mysteries of our universe.

DARK MATTER

Mysterious type of particles 6 times more abundant than normal matter which shape gravitationally all galaxies and dominate the evolution of the visible universe.