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GAPS Launch Scheduled
October 2025
The GAPS team will return to Antarctica to launch the detector.
GAPS Team Deployed to Antarctica
October 2024
The GAPS team traveled to McMurdo Station, Antarctica for final assembly and integration.
GAPS Approved by NASA for LDB flight during late 2024
April 2023
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)
June 2021
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
February 2019
The second cosmic-ray antideuteron workshop will be held at UCLA on 27-29 March 2019.
GAPS approved for funding in U.S.
January 2017
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
June 2014
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.