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NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), where it will start its prime mission of studying the heliosphere and space weather.

Learning from an anomaly during the first BOLT-1A flight, the successful BOLT-1B follow-on flight experiment collected hundreds of critical measurements, providing data to advance understanding of complex physics important to hypersonic flight.

NASA and APL have successfully tested a wideband technology that enabled, for the first time, a spacecraft to communicate with both government and commercial networks.

APL has named Yu-Han “Hugh” Chen as head of the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD). Chen, who previously served as the department’s chief analyst, will lead APL’s work providing integrated technical and operational analysis to inform national security decisions.

A predictive space weather model developed by APL and partners that is designed to simulate how solar storms affect Earth is now widely available to researchers and the broader public.

CINEMA, a mission to improve understanding of the growing impacts of space weather, has been competitively selected by NASA for development.

For the eighth consecutive year, APL appears on Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT list, which recognizes the top workplaces worldwide for information technology professionals.

Since formalizing a partnership last fall, APL and Intuitive Machines have made marked progress toward building communications and navigation systems to enable a sustained U.S. presence on and around the Moon.

In the newly created role of APL chief mission engineering and integration officer, Christopher R. Watkins will lead efforts to strengthen cross-Laboratory collaboration, integrate multidisciplinary capabilities, and accelerate the development and transition of innovative technologies for national security.

APL and Microsoft recently demonstrated an AI agent that can coordinate heterogeneous robot teams using large language models. The September demo highlighted how APL’s expertise in autonomy software and Microsoft’s scalable cloud tools are advancing the future of collaborative robotics. The effort reflects steady progress in a partnership focused on applying artificial intelligence to real-world challenges.