![Illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220915_image1_med.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 15, 2022
DART’s Small Satellite Companion Takes Flight Ahead of Impact
The small satellite companion aboard NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has successfully separated from the main spacecraft, popping out of its spring-loaded box to capture valuable information about DART’s impact into an asteroid that will inform future planetary defense efforts.
![First look at Didymos](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220907b_image1_lg.jpeg)
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Sep 7, 2022
DART Sets Sights on Asteroid Target
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos.
![Shasta High School students present final mission designs to NASA engineers](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220907_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Sep 7, 2022
NASA and Johns Hopkins APL Partner to Give Students Real-World Space Mission Design Experience
Through a pilot program run in partnership between NASA’s Glenn Research Center and APL, students worked virtually with NASA experts to develop concepts for new science missions that require nuclear power systems to reach the deep solar system.
![APL Achievement Awards](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220906_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 6, 2022
APL Achievement Awards Celebrate Staff Members’ Bold Innovations and Game-Changing Impact
Johns Hopkins APL celebrated staff members’ initiatives and accomplishments during the 2022 APL Achievement Awards ceremony. The event recognized 178 staff members as part of 29 winning entries.
![This image illustrates the selective laser melting of the powder bed in an APL logo.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220906b_image1_med.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 6, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Earns Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Challenge Honors
APL researchers earned two first-place awards and one second-place award in an additive manufacturing modeling challenge led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
![Hayley DeHart, a genomics research scientist at APL, loads water samples into a sequencer while on board a ship during the team’s trip to Monterey Bay.](/sites/default/files/2024-07/20220901_image1_1440x808.jpg)
News
Sep 1, 2022
From Lab to Sea, Johns Hopkins APL Genomics Researchers Bring DNA Sequencing Tools Into the Field
Building on rapid genomics capabilities developed to respond to outbreaks and pandemics like COVID-19, a team of APL researchers ventured to Monterey Bay and the Arctic to characterize the underwater world.
![Parker Solar Probe is heading into the 13th of 24 planned, progressively closer orbits around the Sun.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/IMG_Cover_PSP_13.jpg)
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Aug 31, 2022
Parker Solar Probe Prepping for Close Encounter With Highly Active Sun
As NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaches its 13th perihelion, or close encounter, with the Sun on Sept. 6, it is heading into a much different solar environment than ever before. The Sun is becoming more and more active as solar maximum nears, and scientists are excited about the potential for groundbreaking observations.
![2022 R&D 100 Winner](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220826_image3_md.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 26, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Earn 2022 R&D 100 Awards
APL researchers have captured two 2022 R&D 100 Awards for their work on a comprehensive and automated cyber defense capability, known as More Situational Awareness for Industrial Control Systems (MOSAICS), and the Airborne Collision Avoidance System for Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (ACAS sXu).
![From left, Tania Díaz Márquez, Mayra Amezcua, David Díaz Márquez and Teresa Johnson, who recently were honored as recipients of the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council Diversity Recognition Awards.](/sites/default/files/2023-06/202306_DLC-Award-Winners-2023.jpg)
News
Aug 26, 2022
Two From Johns Hopkins APL Receive Hopkins Diversity Recognition Awards
The two APL staff members who are among this year’s recipients of Johns Hopkins Diversity Recognition Awards have more in common than their new honors: Both are driven by their unique backgrounds and a passion for service.
![A sequence in which the asteroid Didymos, located near the center of the screen, moves across the night sky](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220826b_image1_md.gif)
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Aug 26, 2022
DART Team Confirms Orbit of Target Asteroid
Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team confirmed the orbit of Dimorphos around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and its expected location when the DART spacecraft impacts the moonlet next month.