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Press Release
Feb 7, 2006
Hopkins APL Licenses Bone Health Analysis Technology
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., has signed an agreement with Hologic, Inc., granting them exclusive, worldwide rights to the Lab's bone health analysis technology.
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Press Release
Feb 3, 2006
Happy 100th Birthday, Clyde Tombaugh! New Horizons Mission Salutes Pluto’s Discoverer
When the late American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered planet Pluto 76 years ago this month, he opened the gateway to an unknown region of ancient, icy objects unlike any worlds in our solar system — and touched off a revolution in our understanding of Earth's ever-expanding planetary neighborhood.
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Press Release
Jan 30, 2006
New Horizons Successfully Performs First Post-Launch Maneuvers
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully carried out its first post-launch maneuvers, conducting two small thruster firings that slightly adjusted its path toward the outer solar system and the first close-up study of distant planet Pluto.
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Press Release
Jan 26, 2006
APL Licenses Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Portfolio
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has signed an agreement with MIPSolutions, Inc. granting it exclusive rights to the Lab's portfolio of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) technologies, a class of synthetic polymers that may be tailored to selectively detect a particular substance.
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Press Release
Jan 19, 2006
NASA's Pluto Mission Launched Toward New Horizons
The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch today of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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Press Release
Dec 12, 2005
MESSENGER Engine Burn Puts Spacecraft on Track for Venus
NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft successfully fired its large bipropellant thruster for the first time since launch, completing the first of several critical deep space maneuvers that will help the spacecraft reach Mercury orbit.
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Press Release
Nov 18, 2005
APL Provides a Unique View of Successful Intercept
A team from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., developed a multi-purpose sensor payload that was integrated with the target missile to collect video and infrared imagery of the target's boost and post-boost phases of flight.
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Press Release
Nov 17, 2005
APL Contributions Are Integral Part of Missile Defense Test
Today's successful Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) intercept test was due, in part, to the critical engineering and technical direction provided by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md.
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Press Release
Nov 9, 2005
Coming Soon: The Sun in 3-D
The first spacecraft designed to capture 3-D "stereo" views of the sun and solar wind were shipped today from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.
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Press Release
Oct 31, 2005
Technology Contributors Selected to Develop Human Computer Interface Components for J-UCAS Common Operating System
In its role as the integrator/broker for the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems Common Operating Systems, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has selected Raytheon Solipsys and Charles River Analytics to develop and evaluate software that will determine how people control and operate the J-UCAS COS.