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On Sat., April 25, approximately 100 employees from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in Laurel, Md., will help escort 125 World War II veterans from the Huntsville, Ala., area during a day-long tour of memorials created in their honor.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has achieved AS9100 certification, demonstrating that its civilian and national security space business, safety and mission assurance activities align with the highest standards of the aerospace community.

The APL-built and -operated twin STEREO observatories have made the first 3-D measurements of solar explosions, known as coronal mass ejections, enabling scientists to see their size and shape, and image them as they travel approximately 93 million miles from the sun to Earth.

More than 10 million U.S. households and thousands of businesses own power generators that, if not connected properly, can injure or even kill power-line workers when their electricity feeds back into the commercial power supply.

Titan’s vast dune fields, which may act like weather vanes to determine general wind direction on Saturn’s biggest moon, have been mapped by scientists who compiled four years of radar data collected by the Cassini spacecraft.

Michael Vlahos, a principal analyst at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., offers a view of the 9/11 war that illuminates how violent conflicts connect to a group’s “sacred” ritual celebration of identity in “Fighting Identity — Sacred War and World Change” (Praeger Security International, 2008).

Recent images of Titan from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft affirm the presence of lakes of liquid hydrocarbons by capturing changes in the lakes brought on by rainfall.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has been awarded $7.3 million for the initial development phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) effort to build a “cyber range” to test cyber security technology and protect government computer networks from attacks.

NASA has tapped The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to head an investigation of the moon’s poles — including a look at how robots and eventually humans could use the moon’s natural resources.

APL is part of a multiagency team honored by the Department of Homeland Security for developing a technology to help aerial law-enforcement personnel inspect bridges, buildings and other important structures.