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Engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, in cooperation with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy, played a key role in the first intercept flight test of the Aegis Ashore system, resulting in the successful intercept and destruction of a ballistic missile target at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF).

A record 100 high school students are working at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, this fall through APL’s Student Program to Inspire, Relate and Enrich, known as ASPIRE.

Engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, in cooperation with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the U.S. Navy, U.S. European Command and U.S. Pacific Command, played a key role in an MDA Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) operational test event.

The Maryland Academy of Sciences named the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s (APL) Brett Denevi and Robert Armiger Outstanding Young Scientist and Outstanding Young Engineer, respectively, during a ceremony Nov. 18 at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting maneuvers that set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69.

APL Chief of Staff Ron Luman was among seven distinguished alumni inducted into George Washington University’s Engineering Hall of Fame Thursday, Oct. 22.

From Pluto’s unusual heart-shaped region to its extended atmosphere and intriguing moons, New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity in the Pluto system that few expected in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system.

Smartphones — owned by a record 64 percent of American adults — are increasingly used as effective means to deliver emergency alerts issued by state and federal agencies.

New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) — including data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland — provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.