1997 Press Releases
11-06-97 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Awarded Navy Certificate of Merit
10-23-97 APL Comet-Studying Mission Selected for NASA Discovery Program
10-02-97 APL Signs Long-Term Contracts with Navy, NASA
09-29-97 NEAR Spacecraft Gets Unexpected View of Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst
08-26-97 ACE Launched to Study Solar Particles
07-03-97 Deep Space Maneuver Retargets NEAR for Asteroid 433 Eros Encounter
06-30-97 Asteroid Mathilde Reveals Her Dark Past
06-18-97 NEAR Fast Approaching Asteroid 253 Mathilde
06-16-97 APL Opens Patuxent River Field Office
06-02-97 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Encounter with Asteroid 253 Mathilde
04-24-97 Comet Hale-Bopp Viewed by BMDO's Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Satellite
04-01-97 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Files with Howard County to Add Buildings to Campus
03-06-97 APL Receives Acquisition Innovation Award for Transit Satellite Work
03-05-97 MSX Successfully Observes Combined Experiments Program Flights
02-28-97 U.S./Russian Scientists Collaborate on Launch of Two Sounding Rockets
02-20-97 Advanced Composition Explorer Spacecraft Shipped to Goddard for Prelaunch Testing
01-16-97 Local Resident Named Security Officier of the Year at APL