Publications of the prototype flight results

The GAPS prototype flight was a huge success and the results are published: P. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, N. Bando, et al. The flight of the GAPS prototype experiment ASTROPART […]

pGAPS balloon flight from Taiki

This is a time lapse movie taken with a point-and-shoot digital camera mounted to the frame of the payload during the pGAPS flight on June 3rd. 2012 in Taiki, Japan.

Launch day

The final launch preparations started at 10pm. The detectors were driven cold using the ground cooling approach with Nitrogen. During this period check-out tests with X-ray tube and atmospheric muons […]