@AMSISS

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a high energy physics experiment for the International Space Station.

 Houston, Texas
ams.nasa.gov
Joined December 2009
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A Shifting Shield Provides Protection Against Cosmic Rays - AAS Nova

The Sun plays an important role in protecting us from cosmic rays, energetic particles that pelt us from outside our solar system. But can we predict when and how it will provide the most protection?

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AMS: The Fight for Flight - Official NASA Trailer youtu.be/eEi58f-ghwA fb.me/1EuaKSWA1
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NASA Johnson Space Center Invites Media to Screening of Documentary on Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer...

Media are invited to attend the screening of “AMS: The Fight for Flight,” a NASA documentary about the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and its principal

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Spending the evening watching the premier of NASA's production of AMS Fight for Flight. What a great movie. Watch for it on NASA TV.
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The SG100 Cloud Computer Payload was installed on ISS today. It is a commercial space computer that is based on our main data computers.
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Physicists Get a Glimpse of What Dark Matter Might Be

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

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Cosmic rays suggest dark matter is a self-annihilating WIMP

Two papers analyze new precision data from the AMS-02 instrument on the ISS.

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Today marks the 6th anniversary of the launch of STS-134 carrying AMS to the ISS.
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We installed the terminator yesterday during a space walk. It will help us ensure that our next upgrade mission will suceed
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As of today, AMS has measured 100,000,000,000 particles since its arrival to ISS in May 2011.
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iss-casis.org/NewsEvents/OnS…–-the-quarterly-magazine-of-the-ISS-National-Lab.aspx. #isscasis
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Today we celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the launch of AMS to the ISS. I would invite you for cake, but I probably don't have enough ; )
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80 billion measured events as of this weekend.
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We reached 79 billion events today. We reached 78 billion on Feb. 24. That is 1B in 17 days. 59M a day, 2.5M an hour, 41k a minute.
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Seventy Eight Billion measured events as of this morning.
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77 billion measured events. We surpassed every other combined space measurement of charged particles in 2011.
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