Press Release
Sep 20, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Executives Appointed to Defense Science Board
James Miller and David Van Wie have been appointed to the Defense Science Board, a federal advisory committee chartered to provide Department of Defense leadership with independent advice and recommendations on matters related to strengthening national security.
News
Sep 19, 2022
Novel Teaching Tool Earns Hopkins Collaborators International Conference Honors
A Johns Hopkins APL and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine team earned a best paper award at the 2022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, for documenting how they developed an interactive microseminar to teach neuroscience, robotics and computer science to high school students.
Press Release
Sep 15, 2022
DART’s Small Satellite Companion Takes Flight Ahead of Impact
The small satellite companion aboard NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has successfully separated from the main spacecraft, popping out of its spring-loaded box to capture valuable information about DART’s impact into an asteroid that will inform future planetary defense efforts.
News
Sep 7, 2022
DART Sets Sights on Asteroid Target
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos.
News
Sep 7, 2022
NASA and Johns Hopkins APL Partner to Give Students Real-World Space Mission Design Experience
Through a pilot program run in partnership between NASA’s Glenn Research Center and APL, students worked virtually with NASA experts to develop concepts for new science missions that require nuclear power systems to reach the deep solar system.
Press Release
Sep 6, 2022
APL Achievement Awards Celebrate Staff Members’ Bold Innovations and Game-Changing Impact
Johns Hopkins APL celebrated staff members’ initiatives and accomplishments during the 2022 APL Achievement Awards ceremony. The event recognized 178 staff members as part of 29 winning entries.
Press Release
Sep 6, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Earns Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Challenge Honors
APL researchers earned two first-place awards and one second-place award in an additive manufacturing modeling challenge led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
News
Sep 1, 2022
From Lab to Sea, Johns Hopkins APL Genomics Researchers Bring DNA Sequencing Tools Into the Field
Building on rapid genomics capabilities developed to respond to outbreaks and pandemics like COVID-19, a team of APL researchers ventured to Monterey Bay and the Arctic to characterize the underwater world.
News
Aug 31, 2022
Parker Solar Probe Prepping for Close Encounter With Highly Active Sun
As NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaches its 13th perihelion, or close encounter, with the Sun on Sept. 6, it is heading into a much different solar environment than ever before. The Sun is becoming more and more active as solar maximum nears, and scientists are excited about the potential for groundbreaking observations.
Press Release
Aug 26, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Earn 2022 R&D 100 Awards
APL researchers have captured two 2022 R&D 100 Awards for their work on a comprehensive and automated cyber defense capability, known as More Situational Awareness for Industrial Control Systems (MOSAICS), and the Airborne Collision Avoidance System for Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (ACAS sXu).