Three hours after AMS-02 was installed on the International Space Station on May 19th, it get used to its new life in the Space and started detecting particles smoothly and continuously: at a rate of about 50 millions of cosmic rays/day it has already taken more than one billion of events! While the spectrometer was happily collecting particles in space, the AMS-02 team managed to transfer the Payload Operation Control Center (POCC) from JSC – Houston to a new building

Here are two events collected on May 19th 2011, the first moments of AMS on the ISS after its activation. The first event is a 20 GeV electron while the second is a 42 GeV Carbon nucleus. The detectors started operating smoothly and nominally since the beginnng of its life on ISS. We are since collecting data at a 9 Mbps average downlink rate, accumulating millions of Cosmic Ray events.   During the second half of June, the AMS-02 team will

Since today, May 19th, at 5:46 a.m. EDT, AMS-02 is safely on the ISS. Four days after the Endeavour launch, that took place on Monday May 16th at 8:56 a.m. EDT, the experiment has been installed on the ISS through a tricky operation and then activated. AMS-02 was first activated on FD1 (Flight Day One) few hours after the launch, when data transmission was verified and first temperature measures were taken, confirming the expected temperature at various location of the

Tomorrow at 8:56 a.m. EDT shuttle Endeavour will be finally launched to the ISS. AMS-02 team is really excited and concentrated at the same time: at JSC people are ready at the POCC (Payload Operation Control Center), hosted inside the BFCR (Blue Flight Control Room) at the MCC-H (Mission Control Center – Houston), from where they will control AMS-02 first operations. Three hours after the launch AMS-02 thermal control system will indeed be activated and data transmission checked; power will