ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ

Before it can fly its revolutionary rotorcraft over the organic dunes of Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly team needs to navigate several independent reviews to demonstrate the flight project is on track. Led by Johns Hopkins APL, the team recently passed the first of those evaluations, the Preliminary Design Review.

For a career of leadership and technical contributions to the nation’s missile defense programs, Joseph Mulé has earned the Missile Defense Agency’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Pathfinder Award. He is the sixth Johns Hopkins APL staff member to receive the prestigious honor.

For the second year in a row, APL has won an Early Talent Award from Handshake, a top job site for college students.

New research using Voyager 2’s nearly 40-year-old particle data from Uranus suggests at least one of the planet’s moons is actively spewing material into the nearby space environment, possibly from a liquid water ocean beneath the surface.

Johns Hopkins APL is working with the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a software application to help first responders and decision-makers stay up to date during national emergencies.

The installation enables production of mission-critical components while out at sea.

APL researchers are tapping quantum mechanics to better understand one of nature’s biggest mysteries — an organism’s ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field and use it as a tool to adjust some biological processes. And they’ve found some surprising results.

For completing the world’s first planetary defense test mission and its significant impact on the aerospace field, the team behind NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will receive the National Space Club and Foundation’s 2023 Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award.