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Renewed efforts to put humans on the Moon could eventually lead to more landers touching down on the lunar surface. But a new study led by Johns Hopkins APL scientists shows exhaust from such landers can quickly spread and potentially contaminate scientifically valuable ices near the Moon’s poles.

Danielle Chou, a project manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in the Air and Missile Defense Sector, recently accepted a one-year AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship to work with the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office in Washington, D.C.

APL will virtually host the third and final installment of DARPA’s AlphaDogfight Trials (ADT) from Aug. 18 to 20. DARPA tapped APL’s expertise in software development, AI development, modeling and simulation, as well as aircraft dynamics and controls to create the simulation environment and AI for the three ADT competition events.

Johns Hopkins APL has entered into an option agreement with Maryland-based Longeviti Neuro Solutions, LLC, for use of the Lab’s unbreakable, flexible lithium-ion battery technology, which is uniquely suited to the type of innovative neuro devices Longeviti creates for complex brain surgeries.

A new study that included Johns Hopkins APL planetary scientist Nancy Chabot reveals new details about iron meteorites and the formation of planets during the solar system’s youth, but it also highlights that scientists may currently be missing a large chunk of the meteorite record from these early planetary bodies.

APL secured the No. 3 spot on Fast Company’s 2020 Best Workplaces for Innovators list — marking the second consecutive year that the Laboratory appeared among businesses and organizations around the globe honored for demonstrating a deep commitment to encouraging innovation at all levels.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first in-space planetary defense demonstration – will get one chance to hit its target, the small moon in the binary asteroid system Didymos.

What will happen after NASA’s DART spacecraft finally collides with its target asteroid? With myriad potential outcomes, and little known about the asteroid, the answer seems almost impossible to determine. Yet modelers from Johns Hopkins APL are slowly narrowing the range of possibilities, and providing the tools that will be needed to defend Earth from a cataclysmic impact.

Funded by NASA, Space Exploration Sector researchers are working on an instrument that will enable scientists to track and source air pollutants with unprecedented detail — an especially valuable tool as the unanticipated air-quality experiment of COVID-19 lockdowns gradually ends.