![Researchers with Transit-4A](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210629_image1_cover.jpg)
News
Jun 29, 2021
60 Years on, Nuclear Power Still Enables Pioneering Space Missions
Sixty years ago today, the U.S. launched its first nuclear-powered satellite into space, a power source that has since enabled more than two dozen pioneering space missions. Here's a look at four of those missions, all led by Johns Hopkins APL, and the discoveries they have made (or will make).
![BOLT Experiment](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Cover_BOLT_Experiment_Final_Flight.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 22, 2021
BOLT Experiment Readies for Final Flight in Sweden
Held off by the pandemic, the Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT) flight experiment team is preparing for a late-June launch campaign at the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden.
![The PEP-Hi team gathers on Johns Hopkins APL’s Laurel, Maryland, campus.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210616_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jun 16, 2021
Space Particle Instrument Prepped and Primed for Jovian Journey
After a decade in the making and numerous hurdles along the way, the Particle Environment Package (PEP)-Hi, made of two innovative instruments built by Johns Hopkins APL for the international JUICE mission to Jupiter, is complete and ready for installation on the spacecraft.
![APL's Indoor Ocean](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Cover_APL_Indoor_Ocean.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 14, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Diving into Marine Environments with New Lab
Johns Hopkins APL is diving into marine environments with the NAMI marine research, investigation and experimentation lab — a fully functioning marine molecular microbiology and analytics facility, with unique capabilities not found in any other U.S. marine-based labs.
![For its efforts to untangle the long-standing mysteries of the complex solar environment — such as activity in the magnetic field embedded in the solar wind, illustrated above — the Parker Solar Probe team has earned the National Space Club and Foundation’s Nelson P. Jackson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding contribution to aerospace in the preceding year. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210611_image1_med.gif)
Press Release
Jun 11, 2021
Parker Solar Probe Team Earns National Space Club and Foundation Aerospace Award
For its efforts to untangle the long-standing mysteries of the complex solar environment, the Parker Solar Probe mission team has earned the National Space Club and Foundation's Nelson P. Jackson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding contribution to aerospace in the preceding year.
![Todd Smith, of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, prepares the JHU APL Integrated Universal Suborbital (JANUS) platform for a Virgin Galactic test flight](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210610_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jun 10, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Space Sensor Package Passes Latest Flight Test
The recent flight of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity marked another successful test for the JHU APL Integrated Universal Suborbital (JANUS) platform, a sensor designed to observe the conditions inside suborbital space vehicles.
![Venus](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210603_image1_med.jpg)
News
Jun 3, 2021
Solar Mission Reveals New Details About Venus’ Unusual Magnetic Field
A new study, led by Johns Hopkins APL researchers using data from Solar Orbiter’s first flyby of Venus, found the planet’s unusual magnetic field can still accelerate particles to millions of miles per hour — a finding valuable to understanding magnetospheres around planets outside our solar system.
![Dan Anna](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210601b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 1, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL's Anna Named AIHA Fellow
Dan Anna, assistant supervisor of APL’s Environmental Health and Safety Group, was recently named an American Industrial Hygiene Association fellow — a prestigious honor granted to less than 5% of the association’s membership.
![Health](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210524_cover_2.jpg)
Feature Story
May 24, 2021
The Subset Seekers
Data scientists from Johns Hopkins APL and clinicians used artificial intelligence to predict whether a COVID-19 patient is likely to become a severe or mild case. But the process has turned up its own surprises about the individuality of this disease and underscored the need to tailor a person’s medical treatment precisely.
![Water treatment facility](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210519_image1_lg.jpg)
News
May 19, 2021
Novel Technologies Bolster Cybersecurity at Water Treatment Plants
Johns Hopkins APL is designing cost-effective cyberdefense technologies that are strong enough to repel serious cyberattacks but affordable enough to be purchased and easily implemented by the nation’s diverse industrial control system operators, including at water treatment facilities.