Press Release
Oct 8, 2024
Johns Hopkins APL Scientist Rawafi Covers Our Connections to the Sun at TED2024
APL astrophysicist Nour Rawafi took center stage this spring at TED2024 to shed light on the Sun’s mysteries and their significance for humanity’s future. Now available online, the talk highlights his expertise as project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which is helping to unlock the Sun’s secrets and transform our understanding of our nearest star.
Press Release
Oct 7, 2024
Johns Hopkins APL Earns Federal Quantum Computing Award to Propel Science Discoveries
A research team led by APL quantum information scientist Gregory Quiroz and partners at five institutions has earned a competitive quantum computing award from the Department of Energy to engineer potentially game-changing open-source software systems to propel scientific discoveries. The award builds on the team’s previous success designing software that combats errors hampering the performance of today’s quantum computers.
Press Release
Oct 4, 2024
Three Johns Hopkins APL Staffers Named Associate Fellows by Aerospace Technical Society
Three members of APL’s Space Exploration Sector have been named 2025 associate fellows by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Press Release
Oct 3, 2024
Society of Women Engineers Honors Johns Hopkins APL for Leadership, Growth and Diversity
The APL Women in Technology (AWiT) affinity group has earned the Gold Mission Recognition Award from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), marking the group’s fourth Gold honor and fifth consecutive Mission Award.
News
Sep 25, 2024
Johns Hopkins APL’s DeLaHunt Honored With Awards Recognizing Women in Engineering
Sylvie DeLaHunt, an aerospace engineer and assistant supervisor of APL’s Discovery Program, has been named the recipient of two prestigious awards — the Society of Women Engineers Emerging Advocate Award and the Women in Aerospace Initiative, Inspiration, Impact Award.
News
Sep 25, 2024
Johns Hopkins APL’s Galfond Celebrated as an Outstanding Woman in Aerospace
APL engineer Marissa Galfond has been honored with the Women in Aerospace 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award for her technical contributions and leadership in the development of a revolutionary weapon-survivability modeling and simulation software application.
News
Sep 24, 2024
Rapidly Fielding Autonomous Systems at Sea
As the Navy continues to develop and deploy autonomous systems at sea, Johns Hopkins APL researchers are lending their expertise and insights to rapidly integrate, test and assess low-cost uncrewed maritime systems.
Press Release
Sep 10, 2024
NASA’s EZIE Mission Set for 2025 Launch
NASA’s first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets is now on pace for launch in 2025.
Press Release
Sep 10, 2024
Johns Hopkins APL Earns Sixth Straight Selection to Fast Company’s 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List
APL is the only organization to rank in the top 50 of the Best Workplaces for Innovators list since the award’s inception in 2019.
Press Release
Sep 5, 2024
U.S. Air Force, Johns Hopkins APL Hypersonic Experiment Soars and Collects Vital Data
The BOLT-1B experiment collected data about boundary layer transition (the flow of air around the skin of a hypersonic vehicle), which increases hypersonic vehicle drag and aerodynamic heating. That data will be used by researchers to validate new and more accurate modeling and prediction methods during the design of hypersonic vehicles.