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July 4th, 2010

26 February 2011, 4:19 p.m. EST, the AMS02 launch target date. NASA has just announced the new shuttle’s flights manifest: the STS-133 mission will fly the first of November over the Space Shuttle Discovery; then it’s STS-134 turn with AMS02 on board of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Both missions will fly to the International Space Station. Then the shuttles’ career will come to an end after thirty years of service. Follow the STS-134 launch countdown on our homepage!

(Credit: NASA)

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 answering fundamental questions, such as "What makes up the universe's invisible mass?" or "What did happen to the primordial antimatter?"

INSIDE THE C-5M SUPER GALAXY

INTO AMS-02

TIME ELAPSED AFTER LAUNCH

263 days 12 hours 17 minutes 1 second

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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 dominates the evolution of the visible universe.