THE ASSEMBLY OF THE AMS SILICON TRACKER, VERSION 1 AND 2
The AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) experiment is a detector designed to search for antimatter and dark matter. A first version, AMS1, has flown on June 1998, on board of the Shuttle Discovery, during the STS91 mission. The complete detector, AMS2, will be installed on the International Space Station in 2004 and it is foreseen to operate for a period of three years.