Finally in Florida The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

The long-awaited accession of the AMS-02 at the Kennedy Amplitude Center in Florida took abode yesterday, from the Geneva all-embracing airport, in Switzerland, beneath the escort of the astronauts who will fly with it on the Amplitude Shuttle, in February 2011.

The aboriginal date of its cruise appear the All-embracing Amplitude Station, began with a commemoration organized by the CERN – the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, while the spectrometer was loaded assimilate the United States Air Force Galaxy carriage aircraft which brought it to Cape Canaveral.

After the accession at the Kennedy Amplitude Center, the AMS will be kept in a apple-pie allowance for added tests, and alone a few weeks after will be confused to the Amplitude Shuttle, apprehension its aftermost mission.

The Alpha Alluring Spectrometer is a actual big amplitude apparatus but best of all it is the aftereffect of a huge all-embracing accord amid 56 accurate institutes from 16 altered countries.

For over a decade now, Nobel Prize Laureate Samuel Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is still the baton of the AMS-02 experiment.

The success of this adept collaboration, which is absolutely a attenuate phenomenon, is accustomed by the conception itself – the AMS-02.

The spectrometer is the better accurate apparatus to accept anytime been installed on the All-embracing Amplitude Station and its mission is to abstraction antimatter as able-bodied as aphotic matter.

If aggregate goes as planned, the AMS will accord scientists abundant added advice about the agent and the anatomy of the Universe than they accept anytime dreamed of.

And as it will additionally assay catholic radiation sources on stars and galaxies millions of years abroad from our Milky Way, physicists as able-bodied as astronomers will be agilely cat-and-mouse for the information.

The AMS-02 has a alluring acreage that is 4000 times added able than the alluring acreage of the Earth, and this adornment of technology will appraise from space, every atom that passes through it, in a affairs that collaborates with that of the Large Hadron Collider.

The all-embracing tests that the ESA fabricated in its testing accessories at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, were benign for the absolute affairs as they accustomed that the aboriginal superconducting allurement of the AMS should be replaced by a abiding one, that will aftermost longer.

Now, the agreement should abide alive for the absolute lifetime of the All-embracing Amplitude Station after abiding aback to Earth.

Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA’s Human Spaceflight Director said that “The ISS is set to be activated for accurate and analysis purposes, so it is important to calculation on an apparatus that can abide absolutely alive for added than a decade.”

The Amplitude Station is the alone belvedere accessible for the accession of the AMS-02, because of adherence reasons, the abiding acknowledgment “and additionally because we can consistently refurbish the apparatus if necessary,” said Di Pippo.