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Lee Rogers, chief engineer of the Sea Control Mission Area at APL, was awarded the Bronze Medal Award for Technical Achievement in Undersea Warfare at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) 2023 Undersea Warfare Fall Conference.

Last fall, the world watched as the DART spacecraft — the Double Asteroid Redirection Test — guided itself toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a direct collision, a major technical achievement and the first successful planetary defense test in history. As a part of NASA’s overall planetary defense strategy, DART’s impact with the asteroid Dimorphos demonstrated a viable mitigation technique for protecting the planet from an Earth-bound asteroid, if one were discovered. Revisit DART’s triumphant collision with Dimorphos and the resulting year of science analysis and discoveries that followed.

The Howard County certification enables APL to hire recent graduates with prior technical education and hands-on experience.

Three APL staffers won awards from the Association of Old Crows for their contributions to furthering electronic warfare work/research.

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute their mission.

Seven scientists and engineers who made NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission a smashing success last year recently had asteroids named after them.

APL and the University of Maryland, College Park, signed a memorandum of understanding to create new opportunities for collaboration in research and development.

APL — in cooperation with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy — demonstrated the capability to detect, track, engage and intercept a medium-range ballistic missile target in the terminal phase of flight.

In 2022, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared gracefully through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded—not only an impressive feat of engineering but a huge boon for the scientific community. Parker’s journey through the CME is helping to prove a 20-year-old theory about the interaction of CMEs with interplanetary dust, with implications for space weather predictions.