Although the probe would carry no cameras in the classic sense, its onboard instruments would include a low-energy charged particle experiment, a magnetometer, a cosmicraydetector, and an energetic neutral atom detector.
The cosmicray particle physics detector was carried to the International Space Station on the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour and installed under NASA direction.
"As the most precise measurement of the cosmicray positron flux to date, these results show clearly the power and capabilities of the AMS detector, " Ting said, according to the CERN statement.