After 10 months of flying through space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully impacted…
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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 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the world’s first mission to test technology for…
Trying to impact an asteroid is a bold and complex undertaking. JPL is there to…
After capturing images of Vega, one of the brightest stars in Earth’s night sky, the…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently acquired its first image of Didymos, the…
DART Team Confirms Orbit of Targeted Asteroid Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes,…
Scheduled to launch in the late 2020s, NASA’s DAVINCI mission will investigate the origin, evolution,…
NASA’s mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver…
As NASA’s exploration continues to push boundaries, a new solar sail concept has been selected…
Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission team have discovered multiple episodes of cryovolcanism may have…
Science instruments and other hardware for the spacecraft will come together in the mission’s final…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of…
On April 28, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved a historic milestone by successfully entering the…
Just two weeks after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA’s Double Asteroid…
https://youtu.be/QGHVrWpMLb0 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now done what no spacecraft has done before—it has…
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar…
Launched in 2001, NASA’s TIMED mission has now spent 20 years surveying the complicated dynamics…
Lighting up the California coastline early in the morning of November 24, a SpaceX Falcon…