Press Release
Feb 3, 2015
Six APL Engineers to Receive Black Engineer of the Year Awards
Six staff members of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have been awarded Black Engineer of the Year Awards.
Press Release
Jan 15, 2015
New Horizons Begins First Stages of Pluto Encounter
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has begun its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto, entering the first of several approach phases that will culminate with the first close-up flyby of the Pluto system six months from now.
Press Release
Jan 14, 2015
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Receives $4 Million to Develop a Retinal Prosthesis
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, has received $4 million in funding from the Mann Fund to develop a next-generation retinal prosthesis system.
Press Release
Jan 9, 2015
Eminent Defense Figures Join Hopkins APL as Senior Fellows
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory announced today that James N. Miller, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, has joined the Lab as a Senior Fellow.
Press Release
Dec 24, 2014
Innovative Use of Pressurant Extends MESSENGER’s Mission, Enables Collection of New Data
The MESSENGER spacecraft will soon run literally on fumes. After more than 10 years traveling in space, nearly four of those orbiting Mercury, the spacecraft has expended most of its propellant and was on course to impact the planet’s surface at the end of March 2015. But engineers on the team have devised a way to use the pressurization gas in the spacecraft’s propulsion system to propel MESSENGER for as long as another month, allowing scientists to collect even more data about the planet closest to the Sun.
Press Release
Dec 16, 2014
Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory’s Modular Prosthetic Limbs.
Press Release
Dec 10, 2014
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Reports Record Year for Technology Transfer Efforts
The Laboratory launched six start-up companies, filed disclosures for 257 inventions, and recorded 77 agreements to license APL-developed technologies, according to APL’s Office of Technology Transfer.
Press Release
Dec 8, 2014
On Pluto’s Doorstep, NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Encounter
After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles — the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation on Dec. 6 for its long-awaited 2015 encounter with the Pluto system.
Press Release
Dec 8, 2014
New Research Offers Explanation for Titan Sand Dune Mystery
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is a peculiar place. Unlike any other moon in our solar system, it has a dense atmosphere.
Press Release
Nov 13, 2014
New Horizons Set to Wake Up for Pluto Encounter
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft comes out of hibernation for the last time on Dec. 6. Between now and then, while the Pluto-bound probe enjoys three more weeks of electronic slumber, work on Earth is well under way to prepare the spacecraft for a six-month encounter with the dwarf planet that begins in January.