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AMS : searching the unknown / 16:9 / 16-07-2010
jueves, 15 de julio de 2010
European Space Agency
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
ESA TV Exchanges
16-Jul-10 06:30 - 06:45 GMT
REPLAY: 16-Jul-10 15:00 - 15:15 GMT
AMS : searching the unknown
16:9
Background information on the transmission:
AMS - Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer- is a payload that will be attached to the International Space Station with a unique task: search the unknown, look at dark matter, hunt antimatter, in brief discover the invisible: what we can't see but still represents 90% of the universe..
ESA is supporting this mission designed by Nobel laureate particle physicist Samuel Ting team with the participation of Institutes from 16 countries.
AMS, mostly made in Europe, assembled at CERN and tested at ESTEC, is planned to be sent to the ISS by the Space Shuttle early next year.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a DOC file under :
http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS71747.doc
A WMV preview clip is online under :
http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/AMS_169_TV_07-06-10_wmplow.wmv
More background information can be found on .
The MPEG-2 files are on the ESA ftp server in the folder entitled :
ftp://esa.contentcoders.com/mpeg2/AMS_06072010/
Transmission details:
Reception Parameters for 4.8 degrees East
Satellite Sirius 4
Transponder B28
Centre Frequency 12245.340 MHz
Polarisation Offset 0 degrees
Polarisation State Vertical
FEC Rate 3/4*188/204
Symbolrate 27.5 Megasymbols/s