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CONTOUR will orbit Earth until Aug. 15, when it’s scheduled to fire its main engine and enter a comet-chasing orbit around the sun.

The launch of NASA’s Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket has been postponed to no earlier than Wednesday, July 3.

The Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), originally conceived by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, reached a significant milestone recently when the Department of Defense announced its approval for fleetwide acquisition and fielding of the ship-based capability.

A team led by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, successfully conducted the first-ever ground test of a full-scale, fully integrated hypersonic cruise missile engine using conventional liquid hydrocarbon fuel.

Set to visit and study at least two comets, NASA’s Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) should provide the first detailed look at the differences between these primitive building blocks of the solar system, and answer questions about how comets act and evolve as they speed toward the sun.

NASA’s CONTOUR mission to two comets, set for launch July 1, will be the subject of a media briefing Wednesday, June 12, at 1 p.m. EDT at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

NASA’s TIMED spacecraft recently observed our atmosphere’s response to a series of strong solar storms, providing important new information on the final link in the Sun–Earth Connection (SEC) chain of physical processes connecting the Sun and Earth.

It’s hard to see Mars from Maryland, but 100 local middle school students will learn how scientists from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory plan to explore the Red Planet during Comcast-Discovery Space Academy: Mission Mars.

A new imaging technology for identifying cancerous tumors and determining the effectiveness of anti-tumor drugs received The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s Invention of the Year award.

Several thousand people — many of them children — are killed each year by the estimated 110 million land mines that lie hidden in 68 countries throughout the world.