Mission Status of the Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope

The Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope (ADAPT) is a balloon-borne mission designed for gamma-ray and cosmic-ray observations in the MeV-GeV range and to test the technical approach for the future APT mission concept. ADAPT consists of 4 combined tracker hodoscope and imaging-CsI-Calorimeter layers with an additional 4 calorimeter tail counters. It is designed to observe both Compton scattering and pair production events in order to measure a wider range of gamma-ray energies. This presentation will discuss the current state of the instrument as well as the laboratory testing that has been conducted to characterize its response on the ground. Following this, there will be a summary of the potential science that will be done on an upcoming balloon flight of the instrument which includes observation and real-time localization of gamma-ray bursts as well as cosmic ray detection.