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Press Release
Jan 30, 2006
New Horizons Successfully Performs First Post-Launch Maneuvers
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully carried out its first post-launch maneuvers, conducting two small thruster firings that slightly adjusted its path toward the outer solar system and the first close-up study of distant planet Pluto.
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Press Release
Jan 26, 2006
APL Licenses Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Portfolio
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has signed an agreement with MIPSolutions, Inc. granting it exclusive rights to the Lab's portfolio of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) technologies, a class of synthetic polymers that may be tailored to selectively detect a particular substance.
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Press Release
Jan 19, 2006
NASA's Pluto Mission Launched Toward New Horizons
The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch today of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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Press Release
Dec 12, 2005
MESSENGER Engine Burn Puts Spacecraft on Track for Venus
NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft successfully fired its large bipropellant thruster for the first time since launch, completing the first of several critical deep space maneuvers that will help the spacecraft reach Mercury orbit.
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Press Release
Nov 18, 2005
APL Provides a Unique View of Successful Intercept
A team from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., developed a multi-purpose sensor payload that was integrated with the target missile to collect video and infrared imagery of the target's boost and post-boost phases of flight.
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Press Release
Nov 17, 2005
APL Contributions Are Integral Part of Missile Defense Test
Today's successful Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) intercept test was due, in part, to the critical engineering and technical direction provided by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md.
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Press Release
Nov 9, 2005
Coming Soon: The Sun in 3-D
The first spacecraft designed to capture 3-D "stereo" views of the sun and solar wind were shipped today from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.
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Press Release
Oct 31, 2005
Technology Contributors Selected to Develop Human Computer Interface Components for J-UCAS Common Operating System
In its role as the integrator/broker for the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems Common Operating Systems, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has selected Raytheon Solipsys and Charles River Analytics to develop and evaluate software that will determine how people control and operate the J-UCAS COS.
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Press Release
Oct 24, 2005
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to Apply Space Research Expertise to Develop Deep Space Navigation Network
Scientists and engineers at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will be applying their expertise from more than 40-years of space research to help determine whether X-ray signals from celestial sources, such as stars and pulsars, can be used for satellite navigation in deep space.
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Press Release
Oct 13, 2005
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Names Krill as Assistant Director for Programs
Jerry A. Krill has been appointed Assistant Director for Programs at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., and in that capacity will oversee APL's more than 400 programs.