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Press Release
Feb 20, 2012
Black Engineers Honor APL’s Danielle Hilliard for Community Service
Danielle Hilliard of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., was awarded the Black Engineer of the Year Community Service Award at the organization’s STEM Global Competitiveness Conference on Feb. 18 in Philadelphia.
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Press Release
Feb 3, 2012
Software Enables Efficient Planning of MESSENGER Observations
SciBox, a scientific planning software package, has proven critical to the success of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury.
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Press Release
Feb 1, 2012
Applied Physics Lab Named One of Baltimore’s ‘Best Places to Work’
For the third year in a row, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has been named to Baltimore magazine’s “Best Places to Work” list.
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Press Release
Dec 22, 2011
A Christmas Crater on Mercury
The crater at the center of Wednesday's MESSENGER image of the day is named Dickens, after Charles Dickens, the English novelist who lived from 1812 to 1870.
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Press Release
Dec 20, 2011
Applied Physics Lab Names New Executive for Research and Exploratory Development Business Area
Charles Goldblum has been appointed the business area executive for the Research and Exploratory Development Department (REDD) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.
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Press Release
Dec 20, 2011
APL Discovery Gives Advance Warning of Catastrophic Failure in Lithium-Ion Batteries
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., have developed an inexpensive sensor that can warn of impending catastrophic failure in lithium-ion batteries.
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Press Release
Dec 16, 2011
MESSENGER Among Discover Magazine’s Top 100 Stories of 2011
Discover magazine has named the MESSENGER mission one of the top 100 stories of 2011.
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Press Release
Dec 7, 2011
APL Wins Bike Friendly Business Award
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) was awarded a bronze Bicycle Friendly Business Award by the League of American Bicyclists in a ceremony on its Laurel, Md., campus today.
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Press Release
Dec 7, 2011
TIMED Atmospheric Spacecraft Marks 10 Years of Groundbreaking Science
Since its launch a decade ago on Dec. 7, 2001, NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) spacecraft has collected more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, and has provided an unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth and space.
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Press Release
Dec 6, 2011
NASA’s Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory.