During the STS-134 mission, and for the first several months afterward, about 40 members of the AMS team monitored the experiment and analyzed the data it sent down from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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It will also slow down the speedy return of data from an experiment to measure winds on Titan.

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"Poring over the data from such an event to see what systems worked and which didn't - that is a great experiment in the the making, " said Mr Rattner.

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From the start of 2010 (when China first started publishing quarterly BOP data) we experiment with various currency proportions, before settling on the following composition of FX reserves: 60% held in USD assets, 30% in euros and 5% each in yen and sterling.

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