Two European Space Agency (ESA) experiments will be flying on the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
Flying on Russia's Zvezda service module in November will be a global transmission services (GTS) service and the Matroshka radiation monitor, ESA announced at the show.
The GTS uses a transmitter with two dedicated frequencies to provide a highly accurate time signal.
The service will provide accurate time receipt and automated local time conversion for mobile users on the ground; car theft-protection, working with electronic car keys, and coding and recoding of electronic chip, smart and credit cards.
Europe also has played a major role in the development of NASA's alpha magentic spectrometer (AMS) which is also flying on the Zvezda. This is designed to study matter and anti-matter in space.
The Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe requires that matter and anti-matter be equally abundant at the very hot beginning.
The AMS is expected to detect a few anti-carbon nuclei per week if the present theory of the Big Bang is correct. ESA also said that five more experiments will be flown next year outside the US Laboratory module.
Source: Flight Daily News
