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As he ties up a decades-long career in the space domain, former APL Space Exploration Sector head Mike Ryschkewitsch has been recognized with the National Space Club and Foundation’s Norman J. Baker Astronautics Engineer Award.

The Dragonfly guest investigator program includes opportunities for early career scientists and engineers to gain experience during all phases of the game-changing NASA rotorcraft-lander mission to Saturn’s moon Titan.

By linking two existing operational capabilities, scientists and engineers at APL have created a tool to arm first responders with crucial information by computing the impact of natural disaster damage on a given mission.

Seven years ago, scientists made the surprising discovery of oxygen coming from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, throwing into question much of what they thought they knew about the early solar system. But a new study led by Johns Hopkins APL researchers reveals new details that suggest not everything about that discovery is as it seems.

Representatives from a host of federal, state and local agencies convened recently at APL for the fourth iteration of a Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise to assess our nation’s ability to respond effectively to a (simulated) asteroid impact threat to Earth.

APL has been named No. 3 on Fast Company's 2022 World's Most Innovative Space Companies list for building and managing NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.

Three APL staff members received Black Engineer of the Year Awards honoring their leadership and recognizing their commitment to inspire the next generation of technical professionals.

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), in partnership with APL and IEEE, is launching the IEEE International Conference on Assured Autonomy (ICAA). The virtual conference will take place March 22-23.

Johns Hopkins APL researchers are developing coatings that can stand up to the rigors of hypersonic flight in the upper atmosphere. The work leverages APL’s ability to produce custom materials solutions to solve hard problems that stand between success and failure on real missions.