January 11, 2022
Three From Johns Hopkins APL Named as Professional Organization Fellows
Three APL staff members were recently named as fellows to prestigious technical organizations across the country.
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January 11, 2022
Three APL staff members were recently named as fellows to prestigious technical organizations across the country.
January 10, 2022
An APL team recently completed work on an instrument that will be critical to determining the habitability of Europa, the one of Jupiter’s moons that’s most likely to harbor life.
December 23, 2021
Andre Douglas, a systems engineer at APL, was selected by NASA to join the 2021 astronaut candidate class. He will report for duty in January to begin two years of training.
December 22, 2021
Just two weeks after liftoff, NASA’s DART spacecraft, which Johns Hopkins APL designed, built and manages, opened the door to its DRACO camera and returned its first star-filled images. The images will help researchers calibrate for DART’s ultimate goal of crashing into an asteroid.
December 20, 2021
Marine veteran and APL engineer Justin Peters leads with enthusiasm — for his field of study, his colleagues and the warfighters he serves. Peters deeply enjoys the multiple roles he plays at APL, from his official job as a chief engineer to his informal role as a trusted advisor to colleagues who rely on his expertise in the niche field of explosives engineering.
December 16, 2021
Despite significant advances in drone technology and autonomous systems over the last couple of decades, a world where small, swift robots dart and weave through pedestrians, bikes and cars in the urban landscape remains firmly in the realm of science fiction. But researchers at APL have made significant progress on two key technical problems that stand in the way of fiction becoming a reality.
December 14, 2021
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. The Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere — called the corona — sampling particles and characterizing magnetic fields in this dynamic environment.
December 10, 2021
APL will co-host the fourth annual Virtual Workshop on 5G Technologies for First Responder and Tactical Networks on Tuesday, Dec. 14, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.
December 8, 2021
The first Operation Protovision competition features the debut of an APL-built simulation environment: the first prototype of the fully digital portion of a new live, virtual, constructive capability for weapon research and development dubbed “the Colosseum.”
December 7, 2021
Exactly 20 years ago today, NASA’s TIMED mission launched from the California coast on a journey to unveil new secrets about the upper climes of Earth’s atmosphere. Developed in part by Johns Hopkins APL, the mission’s unrivaled 20-year dataset has provided crucial insights about space weather, Earth’s climate and the evolution of planetary atmospheres.
November 24, 2021
After a decade in the making, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which Johns Hopkins APL built and is managing, launched from the California coast early Wednesday morning. It set off to perform the world’s first full-scale test to defend Earth from a potential asteroid or comet threat.