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Barry Grabow has been named mission area executive for Johns Hopkins APL’s National Health Mission Area, formally occupying a role he has held in an acting capacity since August.

NASA has given Johns Hopkins APL the green light to begin detailed designs on the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) — a SmallSat mission to characterize the electric currents that link Earth’s aurora to the planet’s magnetosphere.

It was the mid-1970s and Ted Habarth, then the equal opportunity officer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, was concerned about the underrepresentation of minorities in fields like math and science.

To improve collaborative decision-making between human and machine, researchers at APL created an artificial intelligence agent called Cyclone and trained it to play a cooperative card game through a unique learning process: train Cyclone to play like a human so it can play well with humans.

Roshni Arun is just a week out of high school, but the ASPIRE intern is already on a mission to empower young women in STEM and increase student access to Johns Hopkins APL’s resources.

Three initiatives from APL were honored in Fast Company magazine’s 2022 World Changing Ideas awards, each earning an honorable mention.

By studying a landslide on the asteroid Bennu, a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins APL's Mark Perry has gained new insight into the surface strength — or weakness — of so-called rubble-pile asteroids, the loose collections of smaller rocks and dust held together by their own gravity.

In a last hurrah for an imager entering its final months of operation, the CRISM team at Johns Hopkins APL is releasing a new near-global map of Mars produced by the instrument. The first of what will be thousands of pieces colored to convey the mineral composition of the Martian surface were released on Wednesday.

Years of APL engineering and technical leadership for the Missile Defense Agency Ground Sensors Directorate culminated last December as Lockheed Martin built and installed the multimission Long Range Discrimination Radar at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska.

On its journey to collide with an asteroid in the world’s first planetary defense test mission, NASA’s DART captured images of the nearby and very bright star Vega in a test of how light scatters off of the spacecraft’s camera DRACO and other internal parts.