The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is boarded: its 7 tons have joined to the cargo of the Shuttle Endeavour, than it is being prepared for the departure.
The AMS had left Europe, where it has been conceived and realized, for the USA in slid August: its size uses had demanded it of a cargo of the American Air Force for the transport.
The 29 you open them - rather than the 19 as initially programmed - the lascer� Endeavour the Earth directed to the Station It spaces them International and it will finally carry the AMS on its place of job, where it will remain in activity in order at least 10 years (but one hopes that it can work till 2028) during which it is estimated that it will transmit to the center of 100 control Tbyte of data.
The flight will coincide with the penultimate mission of the Shuttle; the last one will be up to the Atlantis and at the moment june is fixed for the 8.
The AMS has been nicknamed the antimatter hunter: its primary scope is to collect information in order to understand what has happened to the antimatter that second the theory had to exist at the beginning of the Universe.
It will be taken care also to make light on the dark matter, a surveying object on which searches with various means (like those in work to the laboratory of the Great Pebble are completed): although it is not succeeded to observe, the dark matter seems to constitute 95% of the Universe.
The mission of the Endeavour will comprise a meaningful Italian presence: not only the AMS, whose construction has cost 1,2 billions of euro, is financed for a quarter from our Country, but on the ISS - where already there is Paul Nespoli - the astronaut Roberto Vittori will arrive.
The AMS had left Europe, where it has been conceived and realized, for the USA in slid August: its size uses had demanded it of a cargo of the American Air Force for the transport.
The 29 you open them - rather than the 19 as initially programmed - the lascer� Endeavour the Earth directed to the Station It spaces them International and it will finally carry the AMS on its place of job, where it will remain in activity in order at least 10 years (but one hopes that it can work till 2028) during which it is estimated that it will transmit to the center of 100 control Tbyte of data.
The flight will coincide with the penultimate mission of the Shuttle; the last one will be up to the Atlantis and at the moment june is fixed for the 8.
The AMS has been nicknamed the antimatter hunter: its primary scope is to collect information in order to understand what has happened to the antimatter that second the theory had to exist at the beginning of the Universe.
It will be taken care also to make light on the dark matter, a surveying object on which searches with various means (like those in work to the laboratory of the Great Pebble are completed): although it is not succeeded to observe, the dark matter seems to constitute 95% of the Universe.
The mission of the Endeavour will comprise a meaningful Italian presence: not only the AMS, whose construction has cost 1,2 billions of euro, is financed for a quarter from our Country, but on the ISS - where already there is Paul Nespoli - the astronaut Roberto Vittori will arrive.
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