![From left, top: Makita Phillips, Mika Ayenson and Adam Freeman; bottom: Jaime Arribas Starkey-El, Malik Little and Justin McGrath.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210222_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 22, 2021
Six From Johns Hopkins APL Honored with Black Engineer of the Year Awards
Six engineers and scientists from APL have earned Black Engineer of the Year Awards, joining a cadre of Laboratory staff members who have been recognized by the organization.
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Press Release
Feb 19, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Partners with CDC to Protect Frontline Health Care Workers
Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, APL is collaborating with the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality on a study to characterize and analyze the airborne transmission of infectious agents in hospital settings — with the goal of reducing risks to frontline health care workers and patients.
![On ancient Mars, water carved channels and transported sediments to form fans and deltas within lake basins.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210218_image1_lg.jpg)
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Feb 18, 2021
Perseverance Mission Highlights CRISM’s Continued Contributions to Martian Science
Perseverance is the most advanced Mars rover yet, strategically dispatched to a spot teeming with indicators of long-gone liquid water and, possibly, fossilized Martian life. Data from the Johns Hopkins APL-built CRISM imaging spectrometer factored into NASA’s selection of the Perseverance landing site.
![Image of Io passing in front of Jupiter, taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210215_image3_med.jpg)
News
Feb 15, 2021
Little Moon Io Helps Jupiter Accelerate Charged Particles to Incredible Speed
Recent analyses of data fortuitously collected by an APL-built instrument on NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft reveal the planet’s little moon Io packs quite a punch, accelerating protons and other charged particles to millions of miles of per hour through an invisible link between itself and Jupiter.
![Artist’s impression of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on the surface of Eros.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210212_image3_lg.jpg)
News
Feb 12, 2021
NEAR Landing Left a Lasting Space Exploration Legacy
On Feb. 12, 2001, a carefully designed series of maneuvers brought the APL-built NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft to the surface of 433 Eros — the first-ever landing on an asteroid. The trailblazing accomplishment pointed the way for future missions.
![The USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) successfully executed the first live-fire test of the Mark 57 Vertical Launching System with a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) on the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Sea Test Range, Point Mugu, on Oct. 13.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210210_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Feb 10, 2021
Successful Intercept Test Sets Strong Course for Navy’s Zumwalt
Engineers from Johns Hopkins APL, U.S. Navy sailors and industry partners watched years of work pay off when the USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) successfully executed the first live-fire test of the Mark 57 Vertical Launching System with a Standard Missile-2 (SM‑2).
![DART team members (from left) John Schellhase, Emory Toomey and Lloyd Ellis of APL inspect the radial line slot array (RLSA) antenna before installing it on the spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210209_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 9, 2021
DART Mission Heats Up, Enters Environmental Testing
A months-long integration and testing phase culminated recently with a successful review and the start of space-environment testing for NASA’s first planetary defense mission, the Johns Hopkins APL-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
![Captured photo of space with the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in its field of view](/sites/default/files/2024-02/wispr_merged_arrows%20-%20trimmed.jpeg)
News
Feb 1, 2021
Parker Solar Probe Captures Planetary Portrait
Its proximity to the Sun not only puts NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in position to grab unprecedented information on the nascent solar wind and solar activity, but it also affords the spacecraft some unique (and pretty cool) views of our solar system.
![Adam Crego and Jennifer McKneely of Johns Hopkins APL](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210201_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 1, 2021
Latest Discovery Awards Fund Johns Hopkins APL-Led Projects in Public Health Messaging, Detecting Pathogens and Detecting Unconscious Bias
Three principal investigators from APL were among researchers from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise to earn funding in the sixth round of the Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards program.
![Mercury’s surface, as captured here in 2013 by the APL-operated MESSENGER spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210129_image2_med.jpg)
News
Jan 29, 2021
Study Reveals MESSENGER Watched a Meteoroid Strike Mercury
A team of physicists that includes Johns Hopkins APL’s Leonardo Regoli reveals in a recent study that the Lab-operated MESSENGER spacecraft witnessed a meteoroid impact on the planet Mercury more than seven years ago. It’s the first impact ever observed on the surface of another planet.