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AMS LOADED INTO THE C5-M CARGO

August 25th, 2010

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.

AMS-02 packed and trasported over a special truck to Geneve Airport.

A structure containing AMS hardware supplies is loaded into the C5-M cargo.

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 37 minutes 29 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 dominates the evolution of the visible universe.