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Commercial Collaborations Enable Agile, Reliable Space Solutions
Johns Hopkins APL and Blue Canyon Technologies have collaborated on agile, reliable space solutions for government sponsors, ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Develops Innovative Platform for Traumatic Brain Injury Research
A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain ...
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Five Years After the Flyby, 10 Cool Things We Know About Pluto
Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL — conducted the first close-up exploration of Pluto. Since then, scientists have uncovered ...
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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications
By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have created an antenna ...
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NASA Authorizes Dragonfly Mission to Proceed With Estimated 2028 Launch Readiness Date - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
NASA’s Dragonfly mission team is moving on to the next stage of development on the revolutionary, car-sized nuclear-powered drone it plans to fly over and land on the organic-rich sands of Saturn’s ...
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Lunar Vertex: Solving Mysteries Swirling Around the Moon’s Magnetic Regions - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Artist’s impression of the Lunar Vertex rover on the surface of the Moon. Equipped with a magnetometer and microscopic camera, the solar-powered rover will leave the Lunar Vertex lander to explore up ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the ...
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Breakthrough Process Creates Next Generation of Powered Wearable Fibers - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL have established new, scalable methods of developing battery- and solar-powered fibers, making it theoretically possible for electrical energy to be harvested from, ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Team Applies Expertise to Homeland Defense Wargame
A team from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, played a central role in a recent Defense Department wargame that addressed the challenges of protecting logistics ...
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Framework Developed by Johns Hopkins APL, Think Tank Assesses AI Impact - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in collaboration with the nonprofit, nonpartisan Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), published a framework to guide regulators as they ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Delivers New Satellite Tracking Capability to U.S. Space Force - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Engineers from Johns Hopkins APL in Laurel, Maryland, and their industry and government partners stand proudly in front of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Concept (DARC) in White Sands Missile Range, ...