Ep 119: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer: The Tools

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Katie Konans

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🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Heather Bergman, Justin Cassidy, and Drew Hood discuss how unique tools were developed to complete the on-orbit repair of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a space particle detector that’s hot on the trail of dark matter and dark energy. This is part three of a three-part series on AMS. HWHAP Episode 119.

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0:00.0	Houston, we have a podcast.
0:02.3	Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center.
0:06.0	This is episode 119, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer,
0:09.5	The Tools.
0:10.8	I'm Pat Ryan.
0:11.8	On this podcast, we talk with scientists, engineers, astronauts and other folks
0:16.0	about their part in America's space exploration program and today we're going to talk
0:20.6	about a typically NASA sort of thing, how we develop unique tools
0:25.6	to complete the on-orbit repair of an amazing space particle detector which is hot on the
0:31.0	trail of dark matter and dark energy.
0:34.0	Yeah, it's what we do.
0:36.0	In 1994, Nobel Laureate Professor Samuel Ting from MIT
0:42.0	proposed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, you'll hear us call it the
0:45.8	AMS.
0:47.2	He had in mind a particle physics detector to be deployed on the International Space Station,
0:52.4	which itself wasn't even flying yet, and which
0:55.5	would gather information about cosmic particles traveling through space.
0:59.8	He was searching for anti-matter and dark matter and keys to the origins of the universe.
1:05.6	It was delivered to the International Space Station on the next to last space shuttle mission
1:09.9	in May of 2011, and it's been gathering and gathering more than 146 billion
1:17.1	cosmic ray events give or take. Check out our podcast episode 117 with space station assistant program scientist Brandon
1:25.8	Riddell for more on the science of the AMS.
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