![Ultima Thule](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190102_image1_lg.png)
Press Release
Jan 2, 2019
NASA’s New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind of World
Scientists from NASA’s New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule.
![Ultima Thule](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190101_image1_lg.png)
Press Release
Jan 1, 2019
New Horizons Successfully Explores Ultima Thule
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins of the solar system.
![APL researcher swabs a hand](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20181217_image1_lg.png)
Press Release
Dec 17, 2018
Johns Hopkins APL and Medicine Scientists Develop Tool to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that nearly 1 million healthcare associated infections (HAIs) occur annually, and many of the approximately 100,000 associated deaths occur in patients with compromised immune systems. While there are signs of a downward trend in this infection rate as hospitals adopt new protocols, these infections continue to represent a significant — and preventable — burden.
![Missile launch](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20181211b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Dec 11, 2018
Johns Hopkins APL Plays Key Role in Aegis Ashore Intercept Flight Test
Engineers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, working with industry partners, the Missile Defense Agency, and U.S. Navy sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC), played a key role in successfully intercepting an intermediate-range ballistic missile target using a Standard-Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii.
![Foundations of American National Security](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Preface-Strategy-Crop.jpg)
Press Release
Dec 11, 2018
How Can the U.S. Call Upon Its Strengths as It Looks Forward to an Uncertain Future?
“A Preface to Strategy: The Foundations of American National Security,” a new paper from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Senior Fellows, examines the nation’s core strengths and how they should shape new strategies.
![Jason Kalirai](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20181129b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Nov 29, 2018
Kalirai Named Civil Space Mission Area Executive at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Jason Kalirai has joined the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as mission area executive for civil space programs. In this role, he oversees APL’s critical contributions to NASA and international missions to meet space science challenges, including space exploration and research, technology development, and production and operation of spacecraft and science instruments.
![Parker Solar Probe is shown as it was mated to the third-stage rocket motor](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20181129_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Nov 29, 2018
Johns Hopkins APL Spacecraft Named Popular Science’s 2018 Innovation of the Year
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — humanity’s first mission to “touch” the Sun — has been named the 2018 innovation of the year by Popular Science.
![Neural activity in brain](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Neural%20activity%20in%20brain.jpg)
Press Release
Nov 26, 2018
APL, Collaborators Launch World’s Largest Neuroscience Data Repository
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, collaborating with scientists from Johns Hopkins University and many other universities and research organizations, have launched the world’s largest and most diverse public neuroscience data repository.
![Galen Mullins poses with a robot](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20181116_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Nov 16, 2018
APL Teams with the Army to Develop Software for Self-Righting Autonomous Robots
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed software that enables autonomous bomb-defusing robots to turn themselves back over, right side up, if they ever get flipped the wrong way.
![IARPA Global Forecasting Challenge winners](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20181108_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Nov 8, 2018
Johns Hopkins APL Wins IARPA Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge
Johns Hopkins APL earned first place overall and Election Forecaster honors in the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge.