Press Release
Jan 27, 2009
APL Selected to Help Engineer National Cyber Range
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has been awarded $7.3 million for the initial development phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) effort to build a “cyber range” to test cyber security technology and protect government computer networks from attacks.
Press Release
Jan 21, 2009
APL to Investigate the Lunar Poles
NASA has tapped The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to head an investigation of the moon’s poles — including a look at how robots and eventually humans could use the moon’s natural resources.
Press Release
Jan 15, 2009
APL-Developed Aerial Technology Receives Homeland Security Secretary’s Team Excellence Award
APL is part of a multiagency team honored by the Department of Homeland Security for developing a technology to help aerial law-enforcement personnel inspect bridges, buildings and other important structures.
Press Release
Jan 8, 2009
NASA to Study the Radiation Belts: Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Developing Twin Spacecraft
Following a successful confirmation review, NASA has given The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) the go-ahead to continue development of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP mission.
Press Release
Dec 18, 2008
Scientists Find "Missing" Mineral and New Mars Mysteries
Researchers using a powerful instrument on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found a long sought-after mineral on the Martian surface and with it, unexpected clues to the Red Planet's watery past.
Press Release
Dec 12, 2008
MESSENGER Team to Present New Mercury Science Results at AGU Fall Meeting
Members of the MESSENGER science team will present a range of new findings from the spacecraft's studies of the planet Mercury during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting next week in San Francisco.
Press Release
Nov 17, 2008
APL Named Howard County's Top Technology Company
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has earned the Howard Technology Council's first Technology Company of the Year Award.
Press Release
Oct 29, 2008
MESSENGER Reveals More "Hidden" Territory on Mercury
Gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed even more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet, sending home hundreds of photos and measurements of its surface, atmosphere, and magnetic field.
Press Release
Oct 28, 2008
NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. This discovery suggests that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than scientists believed, and it played an important role in shaping the planet's surface and possibly hosting life.
Press Release
Oct 7, 2008
MESSENGER Reveals Mercury as Never Seen Before
MESSENGER successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury, and its cameras captured more than 1,200 high-resolution and color images of the planet — unveiling another 30 percent of Mercury's surface that had never before been seen by spacecraft.