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The solar system’s farthest known planetary outpost is closer to getting its first visitor. This week NASA gave The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute and their partners the go-ahead to start full development of the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

A system to destroy airborne biological agents as they move through a building’s heating and air conditioning ducts, developed by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., has been licensed to the Bio-Defense Research Group, Inc. (BDRGI), Upper Marlboro, Md., for production.

Stretching millions of miles around Jupiter, the donut-shaped cloud, known as a “torus,” is believed to result from the uncommonly severe bombardment of ion radiation that Jupiter sends toward Europa.

As CFO, Kohlenstein will manage the Lab’s financial operations, overseeing financial planning and budgeting.

The Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) was among several organizations participating in “Shadow Bowl” — a series of simulated mass casualty disasters in the San Diego region and other communities around the nation during Super Bowl weekend.

NASA Headquarters announced today that APL will formulate, implement and operate multiple spacecraft for the agency’s Geospace missions, which will study the sun’s effects on Earth’s magnetic field and upper atmosphere.

The option includes two technologies: a system and method — based on algorithms — for diagnosing pathological heart conditions; and the Cardiac Auscultatory Recording Database (CARD).

The new standard represents the commercialization of a technology known as the High Level Architecture (HLA) that defines a common framework for organizing independent, distributed simulations into a larger, single simulation known as a federation.

A special instrument, called the Student Dust Counter, has been added to NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Designed by students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the device will detect dust grains produced by collisions between asteroids, comets and Kuiper Belt objects.

Security Officer Michael D. Robinson has been named APL’s Officer of the Year for 2002.