Press Release
Nov 5, 2013
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to Lead NASA Solar System Exploration Research Institute Team
NASA has tapped the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., to look into the processes that shape the surfaces of the moon and asteroids — and provide insight into potential robotic and human exploration of these surfaces and the resources they might harbor.
Press Release
Oct 31, 2013
APL’s Jerry Krill to Be Honored for Naval Networking Technology
The systems engineer behind a revolutionary network technology designed to bolster U.S. Navy fleet air defense will be inducted into the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Innovation Hall of Fame on Nov. 12, 2013.
Press Release
Oct 31, 2013
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Holds Parent STEM Workshop
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) will hold its second annual Parent STEMpowerment Workshop on Nov. 17, in the Kossiakoff Center on its Laurel, Md. campus.
Press Release
Oct 4, 2013
APL Plays Key Role in Operational Ballistic Missile Defense Test
Engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) played a major role in the successful intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missile.
Press Release
Sep 28, 2013
BRRISON Soars to Study Comet ISON
The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON), built and managed for NASA by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), lifted off at 8:10 p.m. EDT from Fort Sumner, N.M., on a mission that includes Comet ISON as one of its observation targets.
Press Release
Sep 27, 2013
Maryland High School Students to Help Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Create a Map of the Brain
This fall, about 2,000 juniors and seniors from high schools across Maryland will have the opportunity to help the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., process hundreds of thousands of high-resolution brain tissue images to create a picture of how the cortex — the outer part of the brain where most cognitive processes are thought to occur — is wired at a single neuron level.
Press Release
Sep 23, 2013
CRISM Reveals New Website
A new website for the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), designed and built for NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., is now live.
Press Release
Sep 20, 2013
APL Plays Key Role in Sophisticated Naval Ballistic Missile Defense Test
Engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., played an important role in the successful intercept of a separating ballistic missile target with the second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System and two SM-3 Block IB guided missiles.
Press Release
Sep 12, 2013
NASA’s Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
Press Release
Aug 28, 2013
Patrick Gibbons Joins Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as Chief Communications Officer
Patrick Gibbons has joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., as chief communications officer.