AMS-02 the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer high energy science experiment
Outside ISS, among cosmic rays
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AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
.@NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is departing the agency on Wednesday after 30 years of service. Throughout his career, he flew four missions, spent 549 days in space, and completed nine spacewalks in support of the @Space_Station.
He ranks fourth among NASA astronauts in accumulated time in space, and his spacewalks total 48 hours and 37 minutes. Most recently, Fincke piloted NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑11 mission, which launched in August 2025 and returned in January. During the mission, he served as a flight engineer for International Space Station Expedition 73 and commander of Expedition 74.
Learn more: nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-a…
ALT NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is pictured inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock prior to the start of the third spacewalk for the STS-134 mission.
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
After doing the amazing spacewalks to repair @AMS_02, now pilot of the ArtemisIII mission. Bravo @astro_luca !! 🎉🎉
“[My] launchpad is my country, Italy…The European Space Agency is like a launch tower… the rocket, literally and figuratively, is NASA.”
@ESA astronaut and Artemis III pilot @Astro_Luca shares words of gratitude.
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on @Space_Station has led to precise behavioral measurements of deuterons, proton-neutron pairs found in cosmic rays. These findings advance the search for dark matter and deepen an understanding of the universe. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.…
ALT iss028e016135 (7/12/2011) --- Exterior view of the International Space Station (ISS) taken during a session of Extravehicular Activity (EVA) with a fisheye camera. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - 2 (AMS-2) is visible in the right foreground and a Soyuz spacecraft is visible
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
@AMS_02 is getting an upgrade! Glad to be on the team to evaluate the extensive spacewalking tasks needed to get the job done. We are bringing NASA's great EVA expertise to the fore, including some of our Hubble team. Go AMS_02! Go #ISS ! PS: That is me in the space suit!
@Space_StationAMS @MIT @NASA @CERN
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Con gran pesar anunciamos el fallecimiento de nuestro compañero y amigo Javier Berdugo, anterior responsable de la División de Astrofísica de Partículas y pilar fundamental de nuestro grupo.
Gracias Javier. Tus compañeros y amigos te recordaremos por siempre.
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
“I was the last commander of the #spaceshuttle #Endeavour. I brought up what’s arguably the most valuable payload ever floated in the space shuttle: It was the #AlphaMagneticSpectrometer on my last flight.” @SenMarkKelly about @AMS_02 :
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AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Raggi cosmici: le differenze tra i flussi di elettroni e protoni e le loro variazioni nel tempo, osservate grazie all’utilizzo di rivelatori spaziali come @AMS_02, potrebbero essere conseguenza dei cicli solari. A sostenerlo uno studio su @PhysRevLett.
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AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Ecco la mia copia di "Advances in cosmology". Con "The right key", raccontiamo le 4 EVAs di @astro_luca per la riparazione di @AMS_02. È un'immersione nell’orbita bassa dove gli imprevisti sono sempre in agguato ma risolti grazie ad anni di preparazione e impegno.
#esa #nasa
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Il Corriere fa la scelta curiosa di raccontare la notizia della probabile fusione nei lab di Livermore attraverso una visita ad altri lab a Boston, che lavorano con altre tecnologie, del chief executive di Eni (e già li…) a cui viene fatto dire che:
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
🌟The @AMS_02 experiment looks for #dark matter, #antimatter and missing matter at an altitude of 400km, from the @Space_Station. The detector was installed in 2011 and sent data back to @NASA and #CERN for analysis.
ALT Image: View of AMS cleaning room/CERN
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
These photos from 2019 show @Space_Station astronauts getting to grips with the cooling system technology of the Alpha Magnetic Specrometre.
A few months later, @astro_luca and @AstroDrewMorgan contributed to repairing the AMS detector aboard the ISS.
home.cern/news/news/experime…
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
The #PhotoOfTheWeek is about @AMS_02, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer located on the @Space_Station.
In 2020, AMS scientists were in contact with the ISS astronauts as they did four spacewalks to service AMS.
Find out more: home.cern/science/experiment…
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
#ThrowbackThursday to 16 May 2011, and the launch of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (@AMS_02). It was delivered to the @Space_Station by the Space Shuttle Endeavour. #FollowTheProtons
Images by @NASA
Full video of the launch: youtube.com/watch?v=ozWjFUWR…
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
#OnThisDay Austrian physicist Victor Hess discovered cosmic rays, leading to the 1936 @Nobelprize in physics. 💫
Cosmic rays have proved useful ever since in physics experiments, including several at CERN, such as CLOUD, @AMS_02 and LHCf. Read more: home.cern/science/physics/co…
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Il 2011 è l’anno del lancio del più grande rivelatore spaziale di antimateria, l’Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer @AMS_02, che, realizzato con un fondamentale contributo INFN, raggiunge la Stazione Spaziale Internazionale il 19 maggio. #INFN70
👉storia.infn.it/2011-2021/
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Years of hard work, training and execution in just 60’’! Happy AMSiversary :)
#OTD last year, the last spacewalk to repair the @Space_Station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 was completed by @Astro_Luca and @AstroDrewMorgan. This scientific device is helping researchers better understand dark matter and the origins of the universe. youtube.com/watch?v=WJDiZ_zJ…
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
#OTD last year, the last spacewalk to repair the @Space_Station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 was completed by @Astro_Luca and @AstroDrewMorgan. This scientific device is helping researchers better understand dark matter and the origins of the universe. youtube.com/watch?v=WJDiZ_zJ…
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Great memories of what seems a distant past... 😌⏱🚀 But will remain always close to heart! 🥰 @AMSISS @AMS_02
#OTD last year, the last spacewalk to repair the @Space_Station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 was completed by @Astro_Luca and @AstroDrewMorgan. This scientific device is helping researchers better understand dark matter and the origins of the universe. youtube.com/watch?v=WJDiZ_zJ…
AMS-02 Collaboration retweeted
Il viaggio alla scoperta della fisica brutta continua con la materia oscura.
Oggi alle 18:00 non perdete l'appuntamento con 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲 sul nostro account Instagram, con @BarbascuraX e Matteo Duranti, ricercatore INFN e @AMS_02.
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