Press Release
Jun 16, 2020
Jennifer Cooper Joins Acoustical Society of America Executive Council
Jennifer Cooper, a program scientist at APL, was recently selected to serve on the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society of America, the country’s main professional society for acoustics.
Press Release
Jun 11, 2020
MESSENGER Shows How a Spacecraft Could End Neutron Lifetime Stalemate
Using data from MESSENGER, researchers from Johns Hopkins APL and Durham University have demonstrated that the lifetime of a neutron can be measured from space.
Press Release
Jun 9, 2020
Mars-Bound Johns Hopkins APL Spectrometer Passes Major Milestone
The team at Johns Hopkins APL designing the gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer instrument for the Japan-led Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos passed its mission confirmation review on May 26, completing a critical milestone that now moves the instrument into its final design phase.
Press Release
Jun 4, 2020
Andy Oak Named Homeland Protection Mission Area Executive at Johns Hopkins APL
Andy Oak has been named mission area executive for Homeland Protection at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he will direct efforts to create disruptive capabilities that safeguard and secure the nation against asymmetric threats.
Press Release
May 29, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL, NASA Upgrade Global Search and Rescue System
NASA may be best known for focusing on what’s beyond Earth’s atmosphere, but the agency also has another role — searching for human life on our home planet, especially when those lives are in danger. APL staff members are working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and its partners to upgrade NASA’s Search and Rescue system.
Press Release
May 29, 2020
‘It’s Like Playing Chess Blind’: Competition Tests AI Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Last fall, more than 60 teams from around the world signed up for a competition developed by Johns Hopkins APL to advance machine decision-making under uncertainty.
Press Release
May 28, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Administrator Lends Nursing Services to COVID-19 Fight
Teresa Wilburn tuned to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s early announcements on the state’s coronavirus response with keen ear. As the COVID-19 pandemic began to fully take root in the United States, Wilburn, a group office administrator at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, could feel her registered nurse instincts rising to the surface.
Press Release
May 19, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Receives DART Spacecraft Structure and Ramps Up Integration and Testing
On May 15, the primary structure for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft returned to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Now equipped with its chemical propulsion system and elements of its electrical propulsion system — installed at Aerojet Rocketdyne in Redmond, Washington — the spacecraft will remain at APL through final assembly and prelaunch testing.
Press Release
May 7, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Names Leonard Moss Chief Security Officer
Leonard Moss Jr. has been named chief security officer and head of the Security Services Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Press Release
May 7, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Team Earns AIAA Space Program Management Award
The Johns Hopkins APL team was lauded for balancing elements from science requirements and budgets to schedule and engineering development for the historic voyage to explore the Sun’s blistering environment and mysterious solar wind.