![Agata Ciesielski](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201022_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 22, 2020
White House Taps Johns Hopkins APL’s Agata Ciesielski for Innovation Fellowship
APL’s Agata Ciesielski will help the Department of Transportation create policies for autonomous vehicles as part of a yearlong White House Presidential Innovation Fellowship.
![The authors in “Measure Twice, Cut Once” recognize the real risks presented by the Chinese government’s aggressive, and frequently illegal, attempts to close the gap, if not achieve superiority, in critical technologies — actions that require a firm yet nuanced American response.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201020_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 20, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Assesses Impact of Fraying US–China Tech Ties
Deteriorating relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China are impacting what had been a relatively open global exchange of the most significant technological advances. The question of how grave that impact may be is discussed in “Measure Twice, Cut Once: Assessing Some China–US Technology Connections” — a series of papers delving into American and Chinese efforts to control what has become a complex techno-trading system and a struggle over the terms of interdependence in a relationship that cannot be completely ended.
![Artist's rendering of a spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201020b_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Oct 20, 2020
OSIRIS-REx and the Challenge to Sample an Asteroid
Today, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will make history by slowly touching down on the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu for a few seconds and collecting a small sample to return to Earth. But those few seconds required some creative thinking on the part of scientists and engineers, and APL's Small Body Mapping Tool played a big part. Learn how in a new video released today.
![Data on a computer screen](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201019_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Oct 19, 2020
Turning Down the Noise with Quantum Control
Quantum computers might be the key to developing everything from better materials to novel medical drugs, but they’re currently hampered by environmental noise. APL researchers are building the tools to overcome this problem by leveraging their expertise in a field that many here are quite familiar with: control theory.
![Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lands on its pad in West Texas after a successful flight on Oct. 13 that included two Johns Hopkins APL space instruments. Credit: Blue Origin](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201016_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Oct 16, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Space Instruments Ride Aboard Blue Origin
APL scientists and engineers are assessing data from two experimental instruments flown into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and crew capsule on Oct. 13.
![View of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020](/sites/default/files/2024-02/FeaturedImage_Neowise_large.jpeg)
News
Oct 13, 2020
Parker Solar Probe Spies NEOWISE
Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020.
![Dragonfly landing on planet](/sites/default/files/2024-02/Dragonfly_Home_landed_desk.jpeg)
News
Oct 13, 2020
Searching for Clues to Our Origins
It sounds like science fiction: fly a robotic rotorcraft over the dunes of an alien moon, scanning and sampling its organic sands in a search for the chemical building blocks of life. But a team led by APL scientists and engineers is turning this idea into space exploration reality.
![Parker Solar Probe](/sites/default/files/2024-02/Parker-Solar-Probe-Mission.jpeg)
News
Oct 9, 2020
The Coolest, Hottest Mission to the Sun
With cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the environment around the spacecraft, Parker Solar Probe – designed, built, and managed for NASA by Johns Hopkins APL – has completed six of 24 planned passes through never-before-explored parts of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona.
![Army instructors reenact a trauma scenario.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201009_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 9, 2020
Medical Support for the Next Generation of Military Operations
In a paper recently published by Military Medicine, APL’s Adam Cohen and Sarah Herman join several co-authors to summarize the major concepts discussed at a gathering of military surgeons and propose a more effective approach to prolonged field care research.
![UAV](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201007_image1_med.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 7, 2020
Johns Hopkins Institute Works to Assure the Nation’s AI and Autonomous Systems
Institute for Assured Autonomy Co-Director Cara LaPointe will lay out a holistic framework of the challenges of assured autonomy in a keynote address on October 8 at the annual conference of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.