Press Release
Jun 14, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Signs Licensing Agreement With SIMS Software
APL has transferred the rights to a tool that streamlines the process for reporting foreign travel to SIMS Software, the leading provider of security information management software to the government and defense industries.
News
Jun 13, 2022
Why Phaethon Turned Blue — and How Other Small Sun-Diving Bodies Might, Too
Asteroid Phaethon’s bizarrely blue color has long been a planetary science puzzle, but a study co-authored by Johns Hopkins APL’s Carey Lisse may have finally untangled the chemical process that gave the asteroid its azure hue.
News
Jun 7, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Delivers Propulsion Module for NASA Mission to Europa
After nearly 12 years of design iterations and construction, two trips across the country and thousands of hours of labor, APL has delivered NASA’s Europa Clipper propulsion module — the spacecraft's “workhorse” — and its radio frequency (RF) module to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California for integration with the remainder of the spacecraft.
Press Release
Jun 2, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Developing Standards to Enable Better Brain Analysis
APL researchers are standardizing an amazing collection of high-resolution brain mapping data, an effort that would enable unprecedented analysis and make the Laboratory a focal point for neuroscience research.
News
May 27, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Engineer Takes Helm of NASA Solar Sail Concept
Amber Dubill, a mechanical engineer at APL, will lead the Diffractive Solar Sailing team, which includes experts in optics, aerospace, traditional solar sailing and metamaterials.
News
May 24, 2022
Signs of Success: At Mission’s Midpoint, Parker Solar Probe Marks Amazing Achievements
NASA's Parker Solar Probe - designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL - has come closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history.
Press Release
May 18, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL’s Guo Named an AIAA Fellow
Yanping Guo of APL has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) — a prestigious honor bestowed on only 2,008 members in the organization’s history.
Press Release
May 17, 2022
Semmel Named to Power 30 Higher Education List
APL Director Ralph Semmel was recently named to The Daily Record’s second annual Power 30 Higher Education List. Semmel, the Laboratory’s director since 2010, joined college and university presidents and senior administrators, policymakers, advocates for education access and equity and others “on the cutting edge of research and the liberal arts,” the magazine explained.
News
May 12, 2022
Fatigue Monitoring System Holds Promise in Preventing Warfighter Injuries
Scientists at Johns Hopkins APL are working on a system to monitor physical fatigue in near-real time. Such a capability could prevent countless musculoskeletal injuries, and fits into a larger portfolio of work at the Laboratory focused on predictive health and human performance modeling.
Press Release
May 12, 2022
Howard County, Johns Hopkins APL Join Forces to Leverage Smart City Innovation in Gateway District
APL is bringing its expertise in public health, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and climate change into a collaboration with the Howard County Economic Development Authority to incorporate smart and connected community concepts within the county’s Gateway District.