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Just two weeks after liftoff, NASA’s DART spacecraft, which Johns Hopkins APL designed, built and manages, opened the door to its DRACO camera and returned its first star-filled images. The images will help researchers calibrate for DART’s ultimate goal of crashing into an asteroid.

Marine veteran and APL engineer Justin Peters leads with enthusiasm — for his field of study, his colleagues and the warfighters he serves. Peters deeply enjoys the multiple roles he plays at APL, from his official job as a chief engineer to his informal role as a trusted advisor to colleagues who rely on his expertise in the niche field of explosives engineering.

Despite significant advances in drone technology and autonomous systems over the last couple of decades, a world where small, swift robots dart and weave through pedestrians, bikes and cars in the urban landscape remains firmly in the realm of science fiction. But researchers at APL have made significant progress on two key technical problems that stand in the way of fiction becoming a reality.

APL will co-host the fourth annual Virtual Workshop on 5G Technologies for First Responder and Tactical Networks on Tuesday, Dec. 14, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.

The first Operation Protovision competition features the debut of an APL-built simulation environment: the first prototype of the fully digital portion of a new live, virtual, constructive capability for weapon research and development dubbed “the Colosseum.”

Exactly 20 years ago today, NASA's TIMED mission launched from the California coast on a journey to unveil new secrets about the upper climes of Earth's atmosphere. Developed in part by Johns Hopkins APL, the mission's unrivaled 20-year dataset has provided crucial insights about space weather, Earth's climate and the evolution of planetary atmospheres.

The Space Weather Science and Observation Gap Analysis report describes the results of a science and measurement gap analysis for the Space Weather Science Application Program (SWxSA) within NASA’s Heliophysics Division.

After a decade in the making, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which Johns Hopkins APL built and is managing, launched from the California coast early Wednesday morning. It set off to perform the world’s first full-scale test to defend Earth from a potential asteroid or comet threat.

James Bellingham, a pioneer in the worldwide autonomous marine robotics field who has led research expeditions from the Arctic to the Antarctic, was appointed as a Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Exploration Robotics.