NASA AND THE US Department of Energy (DoE) have agreed to fly an anti-matter experiment on the Alpha International Space Station. The experiment will be developed by a team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The DoE-sponsored state-of-the-art Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) physics experiment will look for anti-matter originating from outside our galaxy and may lead to the discovery of dark matter, a material which some scientists believe makes up at least 90% of the Universe.
The AMS will be evaluated for 100h during the Space Shuttle STS90 mission in 1998 and will fly on the STS110 in 2001, to be installed on the Alpha until 2004.
Source: Flight International
