AMS Welcome Page

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Welcome Page


AMS is an experiment to search for antimatter in space
on the space shuttle and the international space station.


Here is the AMS Logo :

Sticker

Here you can see AMS mounted in the back of the Space Shuttle Payload Bay (launch date May 1998): iSS

And here are three views of it mounted on the International Space Station (as it will be in the year 2001):

Ams on iSS/closeup

AMS on iSS #1

AMS on iSS #2



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