![Members of the APL Cycling Club at the 2019 Bike to Work Day event.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200720_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 20, 2020
APL Rides Again as a Bicycle Friendly Business
As cycling takes off around the globe, APL is again being recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Business by the League of American Bicyclists.
![Cerberus Project Manager Travis Heslop, center, and Derrick Treichler, a Cerberus technical lead, review designs and updates for the latest prototype. APL’s Cerberus project team laid out a three-year plan to design, build, field and iterate an advanced prototype. APL demonstrated an initial working version in just twelve months. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200714_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jul 14, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Flexes Rapid Prototyping Muscles, Impacts Navy
In late 2016, APL received a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) request to develop an advanced prototype of the next-generation mission planning tool, which MDA named Cerberus, in three years. APL demonstrated an initial working version in just twelve months.
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Press Release
Jul 14, 2020
Six From Johns Hopkins APL Earn Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Awards
Six staff members from APL are among this year’s recipients of Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council Diversity Recognition Awards, which honor individuals and groups for their efforts to advance diversity and inclusion in the Johns Hopkins community.
![Pluto](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200714b_image1_cover_alt.jpg)
Feature Story
Jul 14, 2020
Five Years After the Flyby, 10 Cool Things We Know About Pluto
Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL — conducted the first close-up exploration of Pluto. Since then, scientists have uncovered numerous surprising, revolutionary and downright unbelievable things about Pluto and its moons that have transformed our view of these distant icy worlds.
![Johns Hopkins APL Enlists States for Cyber Defense Technology Pilot Program](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200713_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 13, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Enlists States for Cyber Defense Technology Pilot Program
As cyber threats to the nation grow and adversaries move with increasing stealth, APL and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are teaming up to help state and local governments enhance their online defenses.
![Engineers from APL's Space Exploration Sector](/sites/default/files/2023-01/apl-propels-space_cover_2.jpg)
Feature Story
Jul 2, 2020
Staying Aligned During COVID-19: APL Propels Space Missions Forward
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on and a cautious reopening of the state continues, APL staff members remain uniquely focused on hitting their targets. In an unprecedented situation, teams in the Lab’s Space Exploration Sector and Research and Exploratory Development Department are evolving and adapting to ensure the Lab’s critical work remains on time and up to snuff.
![Porter had taught different variations of an oceanography course at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering since 1989. In 2017, however, it was decided the course should transition to online instruction — a change to which Porter initially bristled.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200702b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 2, 2020
David Porter Chalks Up a Blackboard Award for Online Teaching
David Porter, a longtime chief scientist in Johns Hopkins APL’s Force Projection Sector, was selected as a 2020 Blackboard Catalyst Award winner in the Teaching and Learning category for his graduate-level online course, Introduction to Oceanography, in the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals (EP) program.
![The near side of the Moon](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200701b_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jul 1, 2020
New Research Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Previously Thought
Radar data from the Miniature Radio Frequency instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests a trove of metal-rich minerals lies deeper below the Moon’s surface, according to a recent study that includes Johns Hopkins APL researcher Wes Patterson. The finding could resolve a dilemma about the Moon’s formation.
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Press Release
Jun 30, 2020
FDA’s M. Khair ElZarrad to Keynote Session II of Johns Hopkins APL’s National Health Virtual Speaker Series
M. Khair ElZarrad, the Deputy Director of the Office of Medical Policy in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, will be the featured speaker in the July installment of APL’s National Health Virtual Speaker Series.
![Image of Ryugu (left) by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft and of Bennu (right) by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200625b_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jun 25, 2020
Top-Shaped Asteroids Could Be Chips Off the Same Block
Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, two top-shaped asteroids with orbits around the Sun similar to Earth’s, may stem from the rupture of a single, common parent asteroid, according to a study published May 27 in Nature Communications.