Press Release
Nov 30, 2022
DART Mission Earns Popular Science’s ‘Best of What’s New’ for Pioneering Planetary Defense Capability
The editors of Popular Science magazine have named NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) one of the top technology innovations of 2022. Designed, built and managed by Johns Hopkins APL, DART changed the orbit of a celestial body for the first time in human history, demonstrating the capability to defend the Earth from a potential future impact.
Press Release
Nov 28, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL’s Dutta Reelected IEEE Communications Society Member-at-Large
Ashutosh Dutta, a senior wireless research scientist and chief 5G strategist in APL’s Asymmetric Operations Sector, has been reelected to serve as a member-at-large to the board of governors for the IEEE Communications Society, and recently received two prestigious IEEE honors.
News
Nov 23, 2022
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the atmosphere of a planet roughly 700 light-years away.
News
Nov 14, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Shapes a Vision for Promoting Security in Cislunar Space
APL has released a Cislunar Security National Technical Vision with recommendations for policy and technology development to enable safety and stability in the cislunar region.
News
Nov 10, 2022
Moon Maneuvers: Johns Hopkins APL Envisions Strategy and Technology Needed for Lunar and Cislunar Space
As space becomes increasingly easy to access through the proliferation of commercial launch vehicles, cislunar space and the lunar surface are poised to become the world’s next great frontier. Two APL teams are exploring the strategy, policy and technology needed to promote peaceful, collaborative use of this region in the years to come.
Press Release
Nov 9, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Uses AI, Satellite Images to Track Greenhouse Emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the transportation sector accounts for approximately 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions annually in the United States, and emissions from road transportation — driven by carbon-creating internal combustion vehicles — account for a large majority of that.
Press Release
Nov 8, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL, Partners Earn NIH Neuromod Prize to Expand Spinal Cord Injury Research
APL joins a University of Louisville-led team developing neuromodulation therapies for spinal cord injuries as part of a National Institutes of Health grant.
News
Nov 4, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Trains AI to Adapt Through Video Games
Developed by APL researchers, Meta Arcade enables the artificial intelligence community to modify common arcade games and measure how well an autonomous agent can handle those changes.
Press Release
Nov 3, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Names Porche as National Security Analysis Mission Area Executive
Porche will leverage more than 30 years of leadership and engineering expertise to guide experts as they combines innovative technical knowledge and operational analysis to create emerging capability solutions to national security challenges.
News
Nov 1, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Develops Methods to Capture and Destroy ‘Forever Chemicals’
The Environmental Protection Agency recently declared PFAS an urgent public health and environmental issue facing communities across the United States. APL scientists are developing technologies to capture and destroy these harmful “forever chemicals.”