Press Release
Nov 4, 2021
APL DART Team Prepares for Launch of NASA’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission
Excitement continues to grow as DART’s scheduled launch date inches closer and closer. With now just under three weeks to go, DART team members on both coasts of the country are rehearsing and making preparations for the big day.
News
Nov 1, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Helps Define Next-Gen Naval Surveillance System
An APL team led the development of system requirements for the Shipboard Passive Electro-Optical Infrared (SPEIR) program. SPEIR acts as a visual surveillance system providing persistent high-resolution image processing to operators from a new set of electro-optical/infrared cameras installed above the ship deck.
Press Release
Oct 29, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Cracks the Viral Vernacular With Machine Learning for Language
APL data scientist Daniel Berman and virologist Jared Evans, both in the Lab’s Research and Exploratory Development Department, are applying machine-learning techniques that have been used to crack deep problems in language to the effort of defending against new flu strains before they emerge. Think predictive text, but for viruses instead of words.
Feature Story
Oct 25, 2021
Reviving a Legacy Technology for Spacecraft Exploration
A legacy material called silicon-germanium is making a comeback in NASA’s next-generation nuclear power source for spacecraft, thanks in part to recent work by an APL-led team. Its resurgence will enable NASA missions to travel farther and longer than current capabilities allow.
Press Release
Oct 22, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Ushers in New Era of Innovation, Collaboration and Research Capabilities
APL formally opened Building 201 and its state-of-the-art research facilities on Oct. 19, with a ceremony featuring Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and other government and university leaders.
Press Release
Oct 20, 2021
DART Arrives at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Its Final Stop Before Launch
Just two days after leaving Johns Hopkins APL in a specialized container, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it is scheduled to launch in late November.
Press Release
Oct 15, 2021
JHU Partners With Morgan State on Center to Develop Ultrathin 2D Materials
Using a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Johns Hopkins and Morgan State University are creating the Center for Advanced Electro-Photonics with 2D Materials, a first-of-its-kind initiative with a dual mission: to develop two-dimensional materials for use by DoD, and to expand and diversify the technology and defense-sector talent pipelines by training students from underrepresented minority groups.
Press Release
Oct 13, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Devises Clean, Cost-Effective Method to Eliminate PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water
Scientists at APL have devised a unique way to destroy these ubiquitous and toxic environmental chemicals for good. The method is inexpensive, does not generate undesirable byproducts and is practical and scalable for a variety of governmental, civilian and commercial applications.
News
Oct 11, 2021
New Moon-Based Study Again Shows Spacecraft Could Answer Neutron Lifetime Mystery
Just a year after a team from Johns Hopkins APL and Durham University showed for the first time that spacecraft could help end a decades-long stalemate on how long a neutron can last outside an atom’s nucleus, the team has done it again. In a new study using lunar data, the team made a tenfold improvement on their last estimate, drawing closer to answering a question that will improve our understanding of the early universe.
News
Oct 1, 2021
DART Gets Its CubeSat Companion, Its Last Major Piece
Shortly after it arrived at Johns Hopkins APL, the Italian Space Agency’s first-ever deep-space miniaturized satellite, called LICIACube, was installed on DART. The CubeSat will snap images of DART as it performs its final maneuver: a deliberate crash into an asteroid.