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Press Release
Oct 31, 2013
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Holds Parent STEM Workshop
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) will hold its second annual Parent STEMpowerment Workshop on Nov. 17, in the Kossiakoff Center on its Laurel, Md. campus.
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Press Release
Oct 4, 2013
APL Plays Key Role in Operational Ballistic Missile Defense Test
Engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) played a major role in the successful intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missile.
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Press Release
Sep 28, 2013
BRRISON Soars to Study Comet ISON
The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON), built and managed for NASA by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), lifted off at 8:10 p.m. EDT from Fort Sumner, N.M., on a mission that includes Comet ISON as one of its observation targets.
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Press Release
Sep 27, 2013
Maryland High School Students to Help Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Create a Map of the Brain
This fall, about 2,000 juniors and seniors from high schools across Maryland will have the opportunity to help the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., process hundreds of thousands of high-resolution brain tissue images to create a picture of how the cortex — the outer part of the brain where most cognitive processes are thought to occur — is wired at a single neuron level.
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Press Release
Sep 23, 2013
CRISM Reveals New Website
A new website for the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), designed and built for NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., is now live.
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Press Release
Sep 20, 2013
APL Plays Key Role in Sophisticated Naval Ballistic Missile Defense Test
Engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., played an important role in the successful intercept of a separating ballistic missile target with the second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System and two SM-3 Block IB guided missiles.
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Press Release
Sep 12, 2013
NASA’s Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
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Press Release
Aug 28, 2013
Patrick Gibbons Joins Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as Chief Communications Officer
Patrick Gibbons has joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., as chief communications officer.
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Press Release
Aug 26, 2013
Scientists Detect Magmatic Water on Moon’s Surface
Scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon.
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Press Release
Aug 22, 2013
Johns Hopkins APL, Howard County Economic Development Authority Form Tech Transfer Partnership
The partners seek to create new companies and accelerate commercialization of targeted technologies, many developed at APL for government use. Together, APL and HCEDA will identify inventions they believe have the best chance of commercial success.