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Press Release
Feb 24, 2005
APL Contributions Aid Missile Defense Flight 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.
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Press Release
Jan 27, 2005
APL Licenses Computerized Heart Sound Analysis Techniques
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has signed an exclusive agreement with Zargis Medical Corp. to license computer-assisted heart sound analysis technology developed jointly by researchers at APL and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Press Release
Jan 18, 2005
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Space Scientist Honored as AAAS Fellow; Homeric Award Recipient
Dr. Stamatios M. (Tom) Krimigis has been named a "fellow" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Press Release
Nov 30, 2004
APL Chief Scientist Receives Johns Hopkins University President’s Medal
Dr. Alexander Kossiakoff, chief scientist and a former director of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, joins Secretary of State Colin Powell as the 2004 recipients of the distinguished JHU President’s Medal.
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Press Release
Oct 25, 2004
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Startup Company Transforms 3-D Imaging Technology
A new startup company has emerged from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory with a product that processes millions of data points recorded from airborne and ground-based devices — in real time — and turns them into lifelike 3-D graphics.
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Press Release
Oct 22, 2004
Seeing the Sun in 3-D
More than 100 Maryland middle school students discovered how and why scientists will take the first-ever 3-D images of the sun using two nearly identical spacecraft when they met with Johns Hopkins APL engineers during Space Academy: STEREO Mission.
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Press Release
Aug 3, 2004
Mercury-Bound MESSENGER Launches from Cape Canaveral
NASA's MESSENGER — set to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury — launched today at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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Press Release
Jul 15, 2004
NASA Sending a MESSENGER to Mercury
MESSENGER will conduct an in-depth study of the Sun's closest neighbor, the least explored of the terrestrial ("rocky") planets that also include Venus, Earth and Mars.
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Press Release
Jun 30, 2004
APL Imager Aims at Saturn's Space Environment
As NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft begins its four-year orbital tour of the Saturn system, mission scientists will use an innovative imaging device to deliver the most detailed look yet at the relationship between the Sun, the giant ringed planet and the diverse collection of moons looping around it.
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Press Release
Jun 29, 2004
APL's Robin Vaughan Named AIAA Engineer of the Year
Vaughan was cited for her work as guidance and control lead engineer for the MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft — a NASA Discovery mission that will conduct the first orbital study of the innermost planet after its launch this summer.