25 Day Flight Complete After 25 days of successful operations, GAPS was released from the balloon and parachuted to the Earth mere miles from McMurdo Station.

GAPS Launched! GAPS launched successfully in the early morning of December 16.

GAPS Launch Scheduled The GAPS team will return to Antarctica to launch the detector.

GAPS Team Deployed to Antarctica The GAPS team traveled to McMurdo Station, Antarctica for final assembly and integration.

GAPS Approved by NASA for LDB flight during late 2024 The GAPS experiment has been approved for a long duration balloon flight in the Antarctic during the 2024-2025 Austral summer. The team is preparing for campaign, which will begin mid-2024.

GAPS Approved for funding for five years (2022-2027) The GAPS experiment has been approved for funding for five years (2022-2027), with the plan for at least two science flights in the Antarctic. The team is hard at work preparing for a first possible flight in late 2022.

Second Anti-deuteron Workshop The second cosmic-ray antideuteron workshop will be held at UCLA on 27-29 March 2019.

GAPS approved for funding in U.S. NASA has approved the 2016 GAPS proposal. The GAPS team can now move forward to finalize the design of the instrument and proceed towards its construction.

First Anti-deuteron Workshop Held The first workshop dedicated to astrophysical anti-deuterons was held at UCLA. The two-day meeting, organized by Philip von Doetinchem and Rene Ong, brought together world experts in the area of anti-deutereons that resulted in a review article published in Physics Reports.