Reaching Outer Space Starts with a Team that Goes Farther
Imagine creating spacecraft and instruments that travel millions —sometimes billions — of miles to explore planets, moons, asteroids and even the Sun. It’s what the people of APL Civil Space get to do every day. And our success begins with our team’s passion and incomparable expertise. Meet the scientists, engineers and other professionals who collaborate to expand humanity’s reach and knowledge.
Larry Paxton
principal investigator; aeronomer; space scientist
Patrick Peplowski
Nuclear spectroscopist; Experimental nuclear physicist; Radiation physicist
Mark Perry
Planetary scientist
Jamie Porter
Radiation Effects; Spacecraft Charging Effects
Parvathy Prem
Planetary Scientist
Joseph Pulkowski
Chief Engineer SII Group
Nour Raouafi
Astrophysicist
Matthew Reinhart
Program Manager
Andrew Rivkin
Planetary Astronomer
James Roberts
Planetary Geophysicist
Kirby Runyon
Planetary Geomorphologist
Robert Schaefer
Aeronomer; Astrophysicist
John Scherrer
Project Manager
Frank Seelos
Planetary Scientist