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Jun 30, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL’s Cyclone Aims to Improve Collaborative Human-Machine Decision-Making
To improve collaborative decision-making between human and machine, researchers at APL created an artificial intelligence agent called Cyclone and trained it to play a cooperative card game through a unique learning process: train Cyclone to play like a human so it can play well with humans.
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Jun 23, 2022
Inspiring Through ASPIRE: Intern Empowers Young Women in STEM
Roshni Arun is just a week out of high school, but the ASPIRE intern is already on a mission to empower young women in STEM and increase student access to Johns Hopkins APL’s resources.
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Jun 23, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Projects Among Fast Company’s ‘World Changing Ideas’
Three initiatives from APL were honored in Fast Company magazine’s 2022 World Changing Ideas awards, each earning an honorable mention.
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Jun 22, 2022
Deep-Space Landslide Yields an Avalanche of Insight on Asteroid Structure
By studying a landslide on the asteroid Bennu, a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins APL's Mark Perry has gained new insight into the surface strength — or weakness — of so-called rubble-pile asteroids, the loose collections of smaller rocks and dust held together by their own gravity.
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Jun 21, 2022
CRISM Team Closing Operations With New Global Map of Mars
In a last hurrah for an imager entering its final months of operation, the CRISM team at Johns Hopkins APL is releasing a new near-global map of Mars produced by the instrument. The first of what will be thousands of pieces colored to convey the mineral composition of the Martian surface were released on Wednesday.
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Jun 17, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL-Led Study Culminates in Development of Long Range Discrimination Radar
Years of APL engineering and technical leadership for the Missile Defense Agency Ground Sensors Directorate culminated last December as Lockheed Martin built and installed the multimission Long Range Discrimination Radar at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska.
Press Release
Jun 17, 2022
NASA’s DART Captures One of Night Sky’s Brightest Stars
On its journey to collide with an asteroid in the world’s first planetary defense test mission, NASA’s DART captured images of the nearby and very bright star Vega in a test of how light scatters off of the spacecraft’s camera DRACO and other internal parts.
Press Release
Jun 14, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Signs Licensing Agreement With SIMS Software
APL has transferred the rights to a tool that streamlines the process for reporting foreign travel to SIMS Software, the leading provider of security information management software to the government and defense industries.
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Jun 13, 2022
Why Phaethon Turned Blue — and How Other Small Sun-Diving Bodies Might, Too
Asteroid Phaethon’s bizarrely blue color has long been a planetary science puzzle, but a study co-authored by Johns Hopkins APL’s Carey Lisse may have finally untangled the chemical process that gave the asteroid its azure hue.
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Jun 7, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Delivers Propulsion Module for NASA Mission to Europa
After nearly 12 years of design iterations and construction, two trips across the country and thousands of hours of labor, APL has delivered NASA’s Europa Clipper propulsion module — the spacecraft's “workhorse” — and its radio frequency (RF) module to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California for integration with the remainder of the spacecraft.