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Parker Solar Probe
Hitching a ride to the sun
Published June 7, 2018
APL-build spacecraft will transport more than a million names on its historic mission this summer
Parker Solar Probe silhouetted against the massive, orange sun
Praise for Parker Solar Probe
Published Feb 22, 2018 Video
Hopkins-built heat shield lands APL on Fast Company's list of most innovative companies
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Outer space
A Titan proposal
Published Dec 22, 2017 Video
NASA selects for further development APL's Dragonfly mission to explore Saturn's largest moon
In a room tented in plastic, scientists in lab suits and hair nets inspect the Parker Solar Probe
Mission to the sun
Special delivery
Published Dec 20, 2017 Video
APL-built Parker Solar Probe heads to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for environmental testing
Undergraduate research
APL researchers, Hopkins undergrads team up for brain mapping project
Published Dec 5, 2017 Video
CIRCUIT summer internship program trains students in neuroanatomy for project to improve machine learning
Cartoon illustration depicts a pink lumpy asteroid with its fist clenched, being fired at by a dual-winged spacecraft
Space evaders
DARTing asteroids
Published Winter 2017
If an asteroid 1 kilometer in size hit Earth, it would release as much energy as the world's combined nuclear arsenal / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Red planet seen from rocky surface of moon
Seeing red
APL to build 'glasses' for Mars moon mission
Published Nov 17, 2017
2024 launch planned for mission being developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Fully charged
Scientists develop more durable lithium-ion battery
Published Nov 9, 2017 Video
Applied Physics Lab researchers help create breakthrough cuttable, flexible, submersible battery / Applied Physics Laboratory
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Planetary science
From comets come planets
Published Oct 20, 2017
Planetary scientist at the Applied Physics Lab finds evidence of planetary formation in other solar systems
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RISE@APL
Giving 'RISE' to budding lab engineers
Published Oct 19, 2017
Internship program gives undergrads the experience of working in the lab at the Applied Physics Laboratory