![Launch of NASA BOPPS](/sites/default/files/2023-02/Cover-NASA-BOPPS-Launch.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 30, 2014
NASA’s BOPPS Collects ‘An Awesome Dataset’
The Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) experienced a picture-perfect launch just before 10:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 25.
![BOPPS](/sites/default/files/2023-02/140925.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 25, 2014
NASA’s BOPPS Planetary Science Balloon Mission Launches
The Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) is a high-altitude, stratospheric balloon mission that launched on Sept. 25 to study a number of objects in our solar system, including an Oort cloud comet.
![A map of the area of Operation Anaconda](/sites/default/files/2023-02/140923_1.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 23, 2014
APL Researchers Find That ‘Space Bubbles’ May Have Aided Enemy in Fatal Afghan Battle
APL researchers provide evidence that plasma bubbles may have contributed to the communications outages during the battle of Takur Ghar and present a new computer model that could help predict the impact of such bubbles on future military operations.
![Three APL scientists review environmental data](/sites/default/files/2023-02/140917_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 17, 2014
APL’s IT and Analytics Expertise Strengthens Disease Surveillance
In recent years, health surveillance activities have expanded in scale, scope and depth to address evolving health challenges and emerging threats around the world.
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Press Release
Sep 10, 2014
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Recognizes APL’s Miller as a STAR
Elishiah “Eli” Miller, a software engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will receive a national STAR Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).
![false-color image of the trailing northern hemisphere on Jupiter's moon Europa](/sites/default/files/2023-02/090814_1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 8, 2014
Europa’s Shifting Surface
Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter’s moon Europa. This indicates the first sign of this type of surface-shifting geological activity on a world other than Earth.
![Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines and Nykia Jackson](/sites/default/files/2023-02/140828_comp.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 28, 2014
APL Staff Members Receive Women of Color Technology Awards
Two staff members of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will receive 2014 Women of Color Technology Awards for their accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related fields.
![View of Neptune from New Horizons](/sites/default/files/2023-02/140825_1.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 25, 2014
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune’s Orbit En Route to Historic Pluto Encounter
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.
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Press Release
Aug 21, 2014
Test Demonstrates Standard Missile-6 Effectiveness and Versatility
The Navy executed a successful flight test of the surface-to-air Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) at White Sands Missile Range Aug. 14.
![MESSENGER: 10 Years in Space](/sites/default/files/2023-02/140801_1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Aug 1, 2014
MESSENGER Team Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Launch
Ten years ago, on August 3, 2004, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a risky mission that would take the small satellite dangerously close to Mercury’s surface, paving the way for an ambitious study of the planet closest to the Sun.