![Ama Romaine](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160708_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 8, 2016
Romaine Joins Johns Hopkins APL as General Counsel
Former Vice President and Senior Counsel of Hilton Hotel Brands Ama Romaine has joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as general counsel and supervisor of the Office of Counsel.
![Artist’s concept of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160705_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 5, 2016
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft — and APL’s JEDI — in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft — carrying an instrument suite that includes the Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument (JEDI), built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) — successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn.
![APL’s Tom Krimigis (center) receives the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal from Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot (left) and Administrator Charlie Bolden (right)](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160701_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 1, 2016
Applied Physics Laboratory Space Exploration Pioneer Tom Krimigis Receives NASA’s Highest Service Award
Stamatios “Tom” Krimigis, a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory scientist whose storied professional career has closely paralleled American space exploration, has been awarded NASA’s highest service honor.
![Juno's JEDI Instrument](/sites/default/files/2023-02/Cover-Juno-JEDI-Instrument.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 29, 2016
NASA’s Juno and JEDI: Ready to Unlock Mysteries of Jupiter
On board NASA’s Juno spacecraft — set to enter Jupiter orbit on July 4 — are instruments that will help scientists answer fundamental questions not just about the solar system’s largest planet but also about Earth and the universe.
![The Johns Hopkins APL BOPPS team members](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160622_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 22, 2016
BOPPS Team Soars Again with NASA Group Achievement Award
The APL team that designed and implemented the Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) in 2014 was awarded NASA’s prestigious Group Achievement Award for its work and successes.
![Members of the Pelagos team from the U.S. Navy and Johns Hopkins APL](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160616_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 20, 2016
New Pelagos Sensor System Improves U.S. Submarine Operations
A new program called Pelagos — developed as an independent research and development project by the Sea Control Mission Area of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory — provides U.S. submariners with a wide array of new data about their environment, as well as improved methods to utilize this data to make tactically relevant decisions.
![Steve Gribben](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160608_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 8, 2016
APL Space Missions Commemorated on Postage Stamps
U.S. postage stamps featuring a pair of prominent Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory space missions debuted recently. The “Pluto — Explored!” set commemorates the July 2015 flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft; “Views of Our Planets” features iconic images of the planets in our solar system, including an image of Mercury from the MESSENGER mission.
![Person with modular prosthetic limb holding a child's hand](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160606_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 6, 2016
Johns Hopkins APL to Teach Children of Wounded Warriors About Prosthetics Using Virtual Reality
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, has received a $375,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to use virtual reality to educate the children of wounded warriors in the use of prosthetics, and to stimulate interest in STEM topics.
!["Ring current" around Earth](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20160519_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
May 19, 2016
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Reveal Long-Term Behavior of Earth’s Ring Current
New findings based on a year’s worth of observations from NASA’s Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current — an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet — behaves in a much different way than previously understood.
![Global digital elevation model of Mercury's surface, colored according to the planet's topography](/sites/default/files/2023-02/Cover-Topographic-Model-Mercury.jpg)
Press Release
May 6, 2016
First Global Topographic Model of Mercury among MESSENGER’s Latest Delivery to the Planetary Data System
The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to characterize fully the planet’s geologic history.