One Last Chance For The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a high-energy particle detector. AMS will detect electrons, positrons, protons, antiprotons, and nuclei in cosmic radiation.
AMS is a cooperative project that involved more than 200 scientists from 31 institutions and 15 countries. The data gathered by AMS during its three-year mission will help scientists answer important questions about antimatter and invisible mass in the Universe. AMS could detect many types of particles predicted by theorists and determine their astrophysical sources.
AMS could reveal to scientists unusual astrophysical objects like antimatter galaxies, dark matter, strangelets, microquasars, and primordial black holes.
AMS actually refers to two particle experiments: AMS-01 and AMS-02. AMS-01 flew in low Earth orbit (LEO) with Space Shuttle Discovery STS-91 in June 1998. AMS-01 was an AMS prototype (a simplified version of the spectrometer) and was used to test particle physics technology in LEO. AMS-02 is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer designed to be mounted and operated on the ISS.
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One Last Chance for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
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- Close call for ISS
- What do they do up there anyways?
- re: What do they do up there anyways? - same to you as w/Bowz. (n/t)
- It's sort of like a very cheap destination resort.
- re: Just one small part of it
- Not very specific
- You want details? One day last August...
- Not very specific
- What do they do up there anyways?