![Dave Blodgett, 2020 Master Inventor Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210713_image1_lg.jpeg)
Press Release
Jul 13, 2021
‘Solving Problems Others Haven’t’ Keeps Blodgett Focused on Invention
Dave Blodgett says he often wakes up at night thinking about work, but that's OK, because it's thrilling when your work has tremendous potential for meaningful impact. The chief scientist for APL's Research and Exploratory Development Department secured his 10th patent in 2020 and has been honored as a Master Inventor.
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Press Release
Jul 12, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Earns a Place Among Computerworld’s Top 10 ‘Best Places to Work in IT’
APL is one of Insider Pro and Computerworld’s top 10 “Best Places to Work in IT,” making the prestigious list for the fourth year in a row.
![Jupiter’s mysterious X-ray auroras have been explained, ending a 40-year quest for an answer.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Cover_Jupiter_X-ray_Aurora.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 9, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Scientists Help Solve the 40 Year Mystery of Jupiter’s X-ray Aurora
Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have helped solve a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes.
![Researchers with Transit-4A](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210629_image1_cover.jpg)
News
Jun 29, 2021
60 Years on, Nuclear Power Still Enables Pioneering Space Missions
Sixty years ago today, the U.S. launched its first nuclear-powered satellite into space, a power source that has since enabled more than two dozen pioneering space missions. Here's a look at four of those missions, all led by Johns Hopkins APL, and the discoveries they have made (or will make).
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Press Release
Jun 22, 2021
BOLT Experiment Readies for Final Flight in Sweden
Held off by the pandemic, the Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT) flight experiment team is preparing for a late-June launch campaign at the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden.
![The PEP-Hi team gathers on Johns Hopkins APL’s Laurel, Maryland, campus.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210616_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jun 16, 2021
Space Particle Instrument Prepped and Primed for Jovian Journey
After a decade in the making and numerous hurdles along the way, the Particle Environment Package (PEP)-Hi, made of two innovative instruments built by Johns Hopkins APL for the international JUICE mission to Jupiter, is complete and ready for installation on the spacecraft.
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Press Release
Jun 14, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Diving into Marine Environments with New Lab
Johns Hopkins APL is diving into marine environments with the NAMI marine research, investigation and experimentation lab — a fully functioning marine molecular microbiology and analytics facility, with unique capabilities not found in any other U.S. marine-based labs.
![For its efforts to untangle the long-standing mysteries of the complex solar environment — such as activity in the magnetic field embedded in the solar wind, illustrated above — the Parker Solar Probe team has earned the National Space Club and Foundation’s Nelson P. Jackson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding contribution to aerospace in the preceding year. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210611_image1_med.gif)
Press Release
Jun 11, 2021
Parker Solar Probe Team Earns National Space Club and Foundation Aerospace Award
For its efforts to untangle the long-standing mysteries of the complex solar environment, the Parker Solar Probe mission team has earned the National Space Club and Foundation's Nelson P. Jackson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding contribution to aerospace in the preceding year.
![Todd Smith, of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, prepares the JHU APL Integrated Universal Suborbital (JANUS) platform for a Virgin Galactic test flight](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210610_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jun 10, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Space Sensor Package Passes Latest Flight Test
The recent flight of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity marked another successful test for the JHU APL Integrated Universal Suborbital (JANUS) platform, a sensor designed to observe the conditions inside suborbital space vehicles.
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News
Jun 3, 2021
Solar Mission Reveals New Details About Venus’ Unusual Magnetic Field
A new study, led by Johns Hopkins APL researchers using data from Solar Orbiter’s first flyby of Venus, found the planet’s unusual magnetic field can still accelerate particles to millions of miles per hour — a finding valuable to understanding magnetospheres around planets outside our solar system.