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AMS-02 was launched in 2011 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour and installed on the International Space Station’s truss structure. After several years of operation in space the pumps of the Tracker Thermal Control System were approaching the end of life. A program was promptly launched to prepare the pumps cut off and the plumbing of a new Upgraded Thermal Tracker Pump System. On ground the upgrade of the cooling system would have been a complex intervention, in space it has represented a unique extraordinary challenge, extreme by the fact that AMS-02 was never designed to be serviced, once installed on the Station.
The seminar will bring you through some of the efforts required for the identification of the intervention strategy, the development of special tools, and the astronauts’ extensive training on those tools and techniques in preparation for the spacewalks. Finally, the highlights of the four spacewalks will be presented.
The successful intervention will enable AMS-02 to continue operating throughout the lifetime of the International Space Station.
Zoom link: https://cern.zoom.us/j/98453929435?pwd=Y296aVh2YXJqMVpqV3ZGZVVFNDJXZz09.
