One of the primary missions of the space shuttle Endeavor on its 25th and final space flight is to install a detector of particles in the universe, in which Taiwan has helped in its development, the International Space Station, said Jinchi Hao, director a project of the Institute Chungshan Science and Technology (CSIST, an acronym in English), a government research Instituto Taiwan.
"When the Endeavor space rises, it will mark a step forward in our development of space technology," said Jinchi in a recent interview with the CNA.

detector, academically known as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS-02 is a high-tech device built to study the formation of the Universe and detect dark matter and antimatter, Jinchi said before his departure for the United States to attend the historic space shuttle launch. The AMS program is directed by Samuel CC Ting, Nobel Prize winner in physics who is also a scholar at Academia Sinica, the Institute's most prestigious academic research in Taiwan.
An international team of 600 scientists from 16 countries have been responsible for the design, construction, testing and operation of the AMS and the Chungshan Institute of Taiwan is a member of the team responsible for developing the electronics of the detector, said Jinchi.
"CSIST The team is responsible for designing, developing, manufacturing and test data acquisition system, and has cooperated with other participating countries to build the electronics of the detector" said the scientist.
Jinchi formally joined the project to develop the electronic system of AMS in 2001, when the program was already in its second stage.
In the first stage, a European country was commissioned to develop the electronics of the AMS, but the country failed to meet the schedule.
Ting returned to Taiwan to authorize the Chungshan Institute to develop a similar system, and the Institute completed an initial system simultaneously with the European country in 1998. Generally
has always believed that Europe is more advanced in space technology, and the system was initially developed by Taiwan considered as a spare tire. To the surprise of observers, the system developed in Europe did not pass the test, while the system developed by the Chungshan Institute passed the test in the first round, winning international respect. "Since then we have played an important role in international meetings related to the AMS," he revealed Jinchi. The launch of AMS to the International Space Station has been delayed due to a number of unforeseen developments, including terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Columbia space shuttle crash in 2003, and reducing the space budget U.S. due to their involvement in various wars. Thanks to the perseverance of Ting, the project has again be considered Finally, after the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president in 2008, said Jinchi. According Jinchi, Ting has given much importance to Taiwan's participation in the AMS program and has attended every meeting related to the AMS held in Taiwan.
The space shuttle Endeavor is planning to peel off into space on Friday 29 at 19:47 GMT (3:47 am on Saturday 30, Taipei time) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a mission of 14-day International Space Station. (For Emmanuelle Tseng and Elisa Kao) ENDITEM Yang said that in various regions around Taiwan have raised new issues relating to policies and strategies, including the interaction between the two sides of the strait, the conflict between the two Koreas, the problem of radiation and energy resources, the participation of Taiwan's armed forces in disaster relief efforts, among others. Yang stressed that to safeguard peace and stability in the Asia Pacific region, Taiwan considers that should hold dialogues to a more advanced level on the new developments in the region.
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