Press Release
Sep 15, 2017
After a Mission of Amazing Science, APL Bids Farewell to Cassini
This morning, after two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ended an incredible journey of exploration.
Press Release
Sep 7, 2017
Lab Licenses New Malware Detection Tool
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, has licensed a real-time malware analysis program to Deterministic Security, LLC, an Oregon-based spin-off created to introduce the APL-developed software to the commercial market.
Press Release
Sep 6, 2017
Jupiter’s Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery
Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful auroras — only not in ways the researchers expected.
Press Release
Sep 6, 2017
Water and Air: Flying Fish UAAV Can Go Anywhere
About two and a half years ago, Joe Moore, Eddie Tunstel and Robert Osiander — robotics researchers in the Research and Exploratory Development Department of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory — had an idea: create a fixed-wing, unmanned vehicle that could autonomously operate underwater and then propel itself fast enough to make the transition into the air, becoming an autonomous flying aerial vehicle.
Press Release
Aug 24, 2017
APL Demonstrates High-Bandwidth Communications Capability at Sea
A team of engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, has successfully demonstrated a high-bandwidth, free-space optical (FSO) communications system between two moving ships, proving operational utility of FSO technology in the maritime environment.
Press Release
Aug 24, 2017
Johns Hopkins APL’s RAVAN Takes Second Place at AIAA SmallSat Awards
The Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes (RAVAN) CubeSat, led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, placed second in the “Mission of the Year” award voting at the 31st Annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Utah State University Small Satellite Conference held in Logan, Utah, August 5–10, 2017.
Press Release
Aug 23, 2017
Johns Hopkins APL’s ‘Dragonfly’ Dual-Quadcopter Aims to Explore Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon
Dragonfly, a New Frontiers-class mission concept that the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has proposed to NASA, would use an instrumented, radioisotope-powered, dual-quadcopter to explore potential habitable sites where life could be developed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
Press Release
Aug 9, 2017
RAVAN CubeSat Measures Earth’s Outgoing Energy
An experimental small satellite — led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — has successfully collected and delivered data on a key measurement for predicting changes in Earth’s climate.
Press Release
Aug 9, 2017
Johns Hopkins APL Board Member Roughead, Assistant Director Fox Appointed to Commission on the National Defense Strategy
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Board of Managers member Adm. (Ret.) Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations, and APL Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis Christine Fox, formerly the acting Deputy Secretary of Defense, have been selected to serve on the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States, a new panel of national security experts appointed by Congress to make recommendations for the nation’s defense strategy.
Press Release
Aug 1, 2017
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Chief of Staff Selected as INCOSE Fellow
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) has selected Ron Luman, the Chief of Staff of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, as an INCOSE Fellow.