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Press Release
Apr 14, 2004
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory To Name Top Inventions, Inventors on April 20
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will honor 220 inventors and announce its top inventions for 2003 at its fifth annual Invention of the Year ceremony on Tuesday, April 20
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Press Release
Mar 12, 2004
APL Director Richard T. Roca Named to Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee
HSSTAC has been established to serve as a source of independent scientific and technical planning advice to the Under Secretary for Science and Technology.
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Press Release
Mar 9, 2004
MESSENGER Ships to the Cape
Secured in an air-conditioned moving van, MESSENGER set out from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt on March 9 and reached Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station the next day.
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Press Release
Mar 1, 2004
Space Weather Forecasts Favorable March 5 Student Space Academy
More than 100 Maryland middle school students will discover how weather in space affects life on Earth and what creates brilliant light shows in the sky (auroras) when they meet with Johns Hopkins APL scientists during Space Academy: Space Weather.
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Press Release
Feb 2, 2004
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Names Russell Gingras Chief of Staff
Gingras serves as chief advisor to the Laboratory's director, Richard T. Roca, and assumes responsibility for many administrative tasks involving Laboratory management, sponsors and university business.
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Press Release
Feb 2, 2004
Ronald Luman to Head Joint Warfare Analysis Department at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Ronald R. Luman has been appointed head of the Joint Warfare Analysis Department, which evaluates joint warfare systems and forces.
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Press Release
Dec 19, 2003
MESSENGER Shipped to Goddard for Prelaunch Testing
Less than six months from its scheduled launch to Mercury, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is set for the next round of tests to prepare it for the first orbital study of the innermost planet.
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Press Release
Dec 11, 2003
APL Plays Key Role in Successful Missile Defense Flight Test
As Technical Direction Agent for both SM-3 and Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense programs, APL plays a key role in flight tests, including Flight Mission-6.
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Press Release
Dec 1, 2003
Wildfires on the Sun: TIMED Records Impact of Record-Setting Solar Flares
As streams of supercharged particles were hurled toward Earth at speeds of 4-5 million mph, the TIMED spacecraft had a front-row seat for observing the effects of these space-based hurricanes on Earth’s atmosphere.
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Press Release
Nov 5, 2003
Voyager 1 Approaches Solar System’s Outer Limits
Voyager 1 is the farthest manmade object in space, and from about Aug. 1, 2002 to Feb. 5, 2003, scientists noticed unusual readings from several instruments on the spacecraft indicating it had entered part of the solar system unlike any encountered before.