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Gary Sullins, an aerospace engineer and supervisor, was presented with a Missile Defense Agency Technology Achievement Award March 24 during the eighth annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will be the keynote speaker at the Climate and Energy Imperatives for Future Naval Forces Symposium on March 23 and 24 at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s (APL) Kossiakoff Center in Laurel, Md.

John C. Sommerer has been appointed head of the Space Department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.

Near the center of a Martian crater about the size of Connecticut, hundreds of exposed rock layers form a mound as tall as the Rockies and reveal a record of major environmental changes on Mars billions of years ago.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.

William A. LaPlante, head of the Global Engagement Department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has been named to the Defense Science Board.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has been awarded $24.7 million to develop the second phase of technologies to bolster national cyber experimentation capabilities.

Charles Hibbitts is about to join a new generation of space explorers.

Two national magazines have recognized the MESSENGER mission to Mercury for its engineering and scientific accomplishments. Discover named MESSENGER one its top 100 science stories of 2009, and the probe was named one of Time’s best 50 inventions of 2009.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has licensed two patents to Genesis Electronics Group, Inc., covering a compact power source that produces electricity from solar energy.