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USNORTHCOM Commander’s Visit Spotlights Johns Hopkins APL’s Proactive Role in Homeland Defense | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, saw firsthand how APL’s advanced technologies and cross-agency expertise support emerging national ...
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Lunar Vertex - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn’t have a global magnetic field. Instead, it has local patches of magnetized crustal rocks, called “magnetic anomalies.” Lunar Vertex will be the first mission to find out ...
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Johns Hopkins APL, Navy Team up to Advance Additive Manufacturing for Critical Missions
APL is working with the Naval Sea Systems Command to prove that additive manufacturing can consistently deliver ...
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How EZIE-Mag Pushes to Make Science More Accessible and Inclusive
The Origins of EZIE-Mag. APL’s Rob Barnes, EZIE ground systems engineer, and Dr. Jesper Gjerloev, EZIE project scientist, had been brainstorming ideas for affordable, ground-based magnetometers ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Devises Clean, Cost-Effective Method to Eliminate PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Zhiyong and his team, which includes Danielle Schlesinger, Jesse Ko, James K. Johnson, Nam Q. Le and Dajie Zhang, published their findings in Scientific Reports, a journal in the Nature group.. This ...
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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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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications
Johns Hopkins APL researchers have leveraged cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys to create an antenna that can change its shape — and offers a range of potential ...
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A Taste of Titan: Dragonfly Team Debuts Johns Hopkins APL’s Newest Environmental Test Chamber - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Titan Chamber — APL’s largest environmental simulator — is open for business. The team developing NASA’s Dragonfly mission recently took the chamber for an opening run with a full-scale thermal ...
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Nano-engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with Samsung Research, have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today’s commercial systems. Driven ...
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AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing
Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...
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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 ...