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A GALACTIC FLIGHT

August 1st, 2010

On August 25th, a US Airforce C-5M Super Galaxy will land on the Geneva Airport to pick up the AMS-02 experiment and 65 members of the AMS Collaboration. On the following day the airplane will leave to KSC where it will land on the famous Shuttle landing strip.
The C-5 M is one of the largest aircraft in the world, able to carry very heavy loads and land and leave from amazingly short strips.
If you want to know more about the C-5M Super Galaxy have a look to this impressive video.

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

1963 days 21 hours 15 minutes 14 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.