Latest Press Releases
09-03-10 Target NEO: APL team shapes robotic 'precursor' mission for human exploration of an asteroid
08-18-10 APL-Led Team Demonstrates Space Weather Observation System
07-22-10 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Breaks Ground for Spacecraft Integration Facility
07-15-10 MESSENGER Reveals New Information about Mercury's Exosphere, Volcanism, and Magnetic Substorms
07-14-10 Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Awarded DARPA Funding to Test Thought-Controlled Prosthetic Limb
Of Note
APL Tracks NASA Lunar Impact Mission
On the morning of October 9, the 60-foot satellite communications dish at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was trained on the Moon—tracking the plunge of NASA's water-searching Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into the lunar surface. Learn more »
Posted October 2009
APL Part of International Team Expanding Space Weather Radar Network
Electrical disturbances in our atmosphere can have significant impacts -disrupting communications, knocking out electrical power grids, damaging satellites, even affecting astronauts. APL space weather researchers are helping expand a global radar system—the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, or SuperDARN—that has been detecting
those electrical disturbances for more than a decade. Learn more »
Posted August 2009
Staff Moving into Healthier Zone
APL's "In theZone," program entered its third year in 2009, encouraging employees and their families to think about health—from weight control and nutrition to stress management and disease prevention—and to actively manage it. Learn more »
Posted July 2009
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