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With the process to develop spacecraft instrument parts through additive manufacturing continuing to improve, APL is taking the plunge with its own additively manufactured metal part for an instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission.

The APL-built Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will be outfitted with several new technologies for its journey toward its asteroid target. One of those systems — NASA’s NEXT-C ion propulsion engine — was installed last week.

There aren’t many interns who can say that they made a discovery about the Moon before they finished their undergraduate degree, but that’s not the case for Jordan Bretzfelder, an APL intern. In a recent study, Bretzfelder announced the discovery of rocks within the Moon’s Imbrium Basin — the largest of the dark areas visible to us on Earth — that are consistent with the minerals scientists expect to make up the lunar mantle.

Time named the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center to its list of 2020 Best Inventions, calling it “2020’s Go-To Data Source.” Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL provide essential data collection, curation and aggregation for the site, which delivers the most accurate information available on the COVID-19 pandemic.

APL is working with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security to increase the safety of our ambassadors, dignitaries and foreign service staff and their families.

FTM-44 was a key demonstration of the Aegis Weapons System, using the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile to defeat a simple intercontinental ballistic missile threat. This facilitates the potential contribution of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense to a layered homeland defense architecture and augments the Ground-based Midcourse System.

APL works hard to recruit and retain veterans and currently employs more than 800 former service members.

A special journal issue from the Royal Society highlights a conference organized in part by APL researchers on the current knowledge and future exploration of the solar system’s ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, and their moons.

APL researcher Kevin Stevenson leads one of eight teams selected to kick off NASA's new Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research program. The team will focus on finding potentially habitable — but so far undetectable — exoplanets around small red dwarf stars.

Five technical experts and leaders from APL’s Space Exploration and Force Projection sectors have earned a place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ associate fellows class of 2021.