NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently passed through a powerful CME, offering groundbreaking observations that support…
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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a prominent research and development center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, located in Laurel, Maryland. Established in 1942 initially to contribute to World War II efforts, APL has grown into a major multidisciplinary facility that conducts essential research and development across a variety of fields, including national security, space science, healthcare, and information technology. The laboratory plays a crucial role in developing solutions for complex defense, security, and scientific challenges facing the United States. APL is well known for its contributions to space exploration, including developing and managing numerous NASA missions such as the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Parker Solar Probe, the closest spacecraft to the Sun. Additionally, APL conducts significant work in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering, contributing broadly to both government and civilian applications.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe used a Venus flyby to prepare for its upcoming record-setting orbits…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched five years ago, has made remarkable achievements, including becoming the…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on August 3, 2023, that kept the…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have developed one of the smallest, most…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe accomplished a milestone on June 27, 2023 – its 16th orbit of…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Identifies Mechanism Driving the Sun’s Fast Wind Parker Solar Probe data…
Princeton researchers used data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to deduce that a catastrophic event…
One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of…
JPL’s Abigail Fraeman will help study the composition of Phobos and Deimos using instruments on…
NASA’s Electrojet Explorer Mission Passes Critical Development Milestone NASA’s EZIE mission has passed a critical…
NASA’s Dragonfly Team Soars through Major Design Review The Dragonfly mission, led by the Johns…
A new NASA mission to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is due to launch in 2027.…
Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully impacted its target nearly five months ago,…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team has been selected to receive the 2023 Space…
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission held a critical design review (CDR) last…
The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around…
NASA’s Dart Impact Successfully Altered the Orbit of Asteroid Dimorphos Analysis of data obtained by…