In this week’s Tech on Deck, NASA's Satellite Servicing Projects Division and NASA Astronaut Andrew Morgan discuss the station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and how it reveals the origins of our universe. | International Space Station

Astronaut Andrew Morgan jettisoned the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's (AMS) debris shield away from the ISS🛡️ On November 15, 2019, astronauts Luca Parmitano (ESA) and Andrew Morgan (NASA) performed complex surgery on the space station's AMS particle detector in the most challenging spacewalk since the Hubble repairs. They replaced the cooling system and detached a shield, working in a difficult location. Learn more: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-111519a-ams-repair-first-spacewalk.html #

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Where CERN and space collide 🌠 In the week we celebrate #DarkMatterDay, listen to CERN engineer Slawosz Uznanski explain the experiment known as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) that looks for #DarkMatter, antimatter, and missing matter from a detector module on the International Space Station. Slawosz Uznanski was selected out of more than 22 500 applicants to be one of 11 members of the ESA - European Space Agency 2022 astronaut class. Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/wat