![Robotics and autonomous systems](/sites/default/files/2022-12/Robotics-Autonomous-Systems_12-03735-274.jpg)
Press Release
Dec 21, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Engineer Helps Launch Unique Online Robotics and Autonomous Systems Graduate Program
Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, a collaboration between APL and the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (WSE), has launched one of the only fully online Robotics and Autonomous Systems master’s programs in the nation, offered within WSE’s Engineering for Professionals program.
![This video is constructed of images taken on Nov. 30, 2022, by astronomers at Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico.](/sites/default/files/2022-12/20221215_image1_lg.gif)
Press Release
Dec 15, 2022
Scientists Following a Dusty Tail to Shape the Story of DART’s Impact
Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept.
![Phil Larson](/sites/default/files/2022-12/20221215b_image1_med.jpg)
Press Release
Dec 15, 2022
Phil Larson Named Chief Government Relations Officer
Phil Larson has been named as the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s chief government relations officer, effective Oct.
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News
Dec 14, 2022
Making a Volcanic Splash: Tonga Eruption Blasted Water Vapor Into Outer Space
The eruption of the mostly submerged Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022, was among the most powerful in the modern era, creating a massive planet-sized shockwave that reverberated around the globe for days. A new Johns Hopkins APL study shows for the first time that the explosion also blasted water vapor past the boundary of outer space.
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Press Release
Dec 13, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Named to Computerworld ‘Best Places to Work in IT’ for Fifth Year in a Row
For the fifth consecutive year, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has earned a leading place among Computerworld’s 2023 Best Places to Work in IT.
![Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL led the development of the Modular Prosthetic Limb, pictured here, as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program. Five recent peer-reviewed publications provide a snapshot of advances in neural interface technologies, building on work that originated under this effort. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Craig Weiman](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20221207_image1_lg.jpeg)
News
Dec 7, 2022
New Advances in Neural Interfaces Research at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins APL and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have reported research progress on multiple neural interface technologies for functional restoration, rehabilitation and augmentation for people affected by spinal cord injury, upper limb loss and blindness.
![Will Suero Amparo](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20221207b_image1_cropped.jpg)
News
Dec 7, 2022
Intern on Johns Hopkins APL’s Dragonfly Mission Shoots for the Moon
Will Suero Amparo, an intern in APL’s Space Exploration Sector, aspires to become an astronaut. Now, working on the Dragonfly space exploration mission through the Dragonfly Student & Early Career Investigator Program, he is one step closer to that dream.
![APL’s 60-foot antenna during night](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20221205_image1_lg.jpeg)
News
Dec 5, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Is Setting the Path to Prevent Traffic Jams in Space
Today, traffic in cislunar space might look like a quiet country road. It may never grow to resemble rush hour in Times Square, but experts believe the region will get much busier, prompting a need for additional situational awareness capabilities to prevent space traffic jams.
![Surface of the Moon](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20221202_image1_cover.jpg)
Press Release
Dec 2, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL to Build Science Instrument for First Canadian Lunar Rover
APL scientists and engineers will develop an infrared imaging instrument for Canada’s first lunar rover. Called LAFORGE, the instrument will be the first to fly to the lunar surface with the capability of measuring the low temperatures found in some shadowed regions.
![Asteroid Didymos and its moonlet, Dimorphos](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220926_image2_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Nov 30, 2022
DART Mission Earns Popular Science’s ‘Best of What’s New’ for Pioneering Planetary Defense Capability
The editors of Popular Science magazine have named NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) one of the top technology innovations of 2022. Designed, built and managed by Johns Hopkins APL, DART changed the orbit of a celestial body for the first time in human history, demonstrating the capability to defend the Earth from a potential future impact.