Press Release
Jan 28, 2021
Trexler Named to Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute Executive Committee
Morgan Trexler, a materials engineer at Johns Hopkins APL, was recently named the newest member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute executive committee.
News
Jan 27, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Spacecraft Capture Planetary Portraits
The APL-built Parker Solar Probe was wheeling around the Sun last summer when it spied six planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — in its camera's field of view. The Lab-operated STEREO spacecraft caught a similar glimpse at the same time.
Press Release
Jan 25, 2021
Johns Hopkins Researchers Tap Bluetooth Technology to Keep Health Workers Safe
Johns Hopkins APL researchers are working with Johns Hopkins Medicine and a technology startup to explore the use of Bluetooth Low Energy beacons with ultra-wideband capabilities to study the ability of health care workers to maintain safe distances from one another.
News
Jan 21, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Achieve Wireless Soft Robotic Advancement
In a new paper published Jan. 8 in the journal Soft Robotics, a team of APL researchers demonstrated a liquid crystal elastomer-based soft robot that is fully untethered from a power source and has Bluetooth control.
Press Release
Jan 15, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Team Lauded for Lunar Technology Leadership
The APL team that stood up the Lunar Science and Innovation Consortium, an organization to help NASA advance the development of lunar surface technology, will receive a NASA Headquarters 2020 Honor Award.
News
Jan 15, 2021
DART Team Takes a Last Look at Asteroid Target Before Launch
As integration and testing continue on the spacecraft, DART’s investigation team has kicked off the mission’s final prelaunch observation campaign on the ground, using powerful telescopes located around the world in an effort to get a glimpse of the asteroid system that DART will encounter this year.
Press Release
Jan 14, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Partners with InductiveHealth on Disease Informatics for Health Agencies
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists into a second year and conducting disease surveillance continues to be an important component of public health responses, APL has entered into an agreement with InductiveHealth Informatics to facilitate access by additional state and local governments to the APL-developed Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, or ESSENCE.
Press Release
Dec 29, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Space Weather Mission Selected by NASA
A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-led mission to explore electric currents in Earth’s atmosphere that link the aurora to our planet’s magnetosphere has been selected by NASA to move forward to a scheduled launch in 2024.
News
Dec 18, 2020
New Exoplanet Research Method Could Uncover Thousands of Habitable Worlds
A new technique to study the atmospheres of exoplanets that never pass in front of or behind their stars could be revolutionary for exoplanet research, opening up a huge population of potentially habitable planets that have been inaccessible to scientific study.
Press Release
Dec 16, 2020
MEGANE Instrument Test Model Goes to Japan for Physical Tests and Design Review
The Johns Hopkins APL team building the MEGANE spectrometer for Japan’s MMX mission to the Martian moons recently shipped a test model of the instrument. The model will determine how well the instrument fits in the spacecraft design.