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Press Release
Oct 15, 2014
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit after it flies by Pluto in July 2015.
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Press Release
Oct 14, 2014
Department of Justice Establishes National Criminal Justice Technology Center at Johns Hopkins APL
Earlier this year, the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) selected two Johns Hopkins University divisions — the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the School of Education, Division of Public Safety Leadership — for a five-year cooperative agreement to establish a new research center.
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Press Release
Oct 7, 2014
APL Engineer Named First Recipient of New Heinlein Award
Daniel O’Shaughnessy, an engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been named the first recipient of the Heinlein Award for his development of a spacecraft navigational technique that makes use of solar radiation pressure to control a spacecraft.
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Press Release
Sep 30, 2014
NASA’s BOPPS Collects ‘An Awesome Dataset’
The Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) experienced a picture-perfect launch just before 10:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 25.
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Press Release
Sep 25, 2014
NASA’s BOPPS Planetary Science Balloon Mission Launches
The Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS) is a high-altitude, stratospheric balloon mission that launched on Sept. 25 to study a number of objects in our solar system, including an Oort cloud comet.
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Press Release
Sep 23, 2014
APL Researchers Find That ‘Space Bubbles’ May Have Aided Enemy in Fatal Afghan Battle
APL researchers provide evidence that plasma bubbles may have contributed to the communications outages during the battle of Takur Ghar and present a new computer model that could help predict the impact of such bubbles on future military operations.
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Press Release
Sep 17, 2014
APL’s IT and Analytics Expertise Strengthens Disease Surveillance
In recent years, health surveillance activities have expanded in scale, scope and depth to address evolving health challenges and emerging threats around the world.
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Press Release
Sep 10, 2014
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Recognizes APL’s Miller as a STAR
Elishiah “Eli” Miller, a software engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will receive a national STAR Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).
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Press Release
Sep 8, 2014
Europa’s Shifting Surface
Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter’s moon Europa. This indicates the first sign of this type of surface-shifting geological activity on a world other than Earth.
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Press Release
Aug 28, 2014
APL Staff Members Receive Women of Color Technology Awards
Two staff members of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will receive 2014 Women of Color Technology Awards for their accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related fields.