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2020-07-23

A Mission with Impact

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2023-03-01

NASA's DART Data Validates Kinetic Impact as Planetary Defense Method

2023-02-08

DART Mission Receives Space Foundation Achievement Award

2023-02-06

IMAP Mission Successfully Completes Critical Design Review

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  • Voyager 2 image of Uranus, a front-lit turquoise sphere in the blackness of space
    2023-03-16

    Two of Uranus’ Moons May Harbor Active Oceans, Radiation Data Suggests

    New research using Voyager 2’s nearly 40-year-old particle data from Uranus suggests that at least one of the planet’s moons is actively spewing material into the nearby space environment, possibly from a liquid water ocean beneath the surface.
  • People wearing blue DART shirts celebrate by clapping and throwing their hands in the air
    2023-03-09

    DART Team Earns National Space Club and Foundation Aerospace Award

    For completing the world's first planetary defense test mission and its significant impact on the aerospace field, the team behind NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will receive the National Space Club and Foundation's 2023 Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award.
  • Image of the asteroid Dimorphos
    2023-03-01

    NASA’s DART Data Validates Kinetic Impact as Planetary Defense Method

    Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully impacted its target over five months ago, on Sept. 26, the DART team has been hard at work analyzing the data collected from the world’s first planetary defense test mission. Their latest findings were published in four papers in the journal Nature.
  • Photo of the DART Spacecraft approaching an asteroid
    2023-02-08

    DART Mission Receives Space Foundation Achievement Award

    The team behind NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has been selected to receive the 2023 Space Achievement Award, a top award from the Space Foundation. This annual award recognizes individuals or organizations that have demonstrated breakthrough space technology or program success representing milestones in space exploration.
  • Rendering of the Interstellar Mapping Probe in space.
    2023-02-06

    IMAP Mission Successfully Completes Critical Design Review

    After a successful mission-level design review, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe team got NASA’s go-ahead to continue working on the spacecraft, instruments and systems. Johns Hopkins APL is building and will operate IMAP, which is set for a 2025 launch.
  • Illustration of a planet and its star on a black background. The planet is large, in the foreground at the center and the star is smaller, in the background at the upper left. The planet has no atmosphere and no clouds. The left quarter of the planet (the side facing the star) is lit, while the rest is in shadow. The star is bright yellowish-white, with no clear features.
    2023-01-11

    NASA’s Webb Identifies Its First Exoplanet — And It’s the Size of Earth

    Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins APL confirmed the discovery of an exoplanet — a planet orbiting another star — orbiting a red dwarf star roughly 41 light-years away — and it’s almost exactly the size of Earth.
  • Artist rendering of Parker Solar Probe passing in front of the Sun
    2023-01-10

    Scientists May Have Solved Decades-Old Mysteries About the Origins of the Solar Wind

    Scientists with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission think they have discovered the processes that give birth to streams of charged particles — called the solar wind — released from the Sun’s corona, or upper atmosphere.
  • Image of the Didymos system in space, appearing as a small white dot with a long bright tail behind it. Stars surround the system in the image.
    2022-12-15

    Scientists Following a Dusty Tail to Shape the Story of DART’s Impact

    Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26 — altering its orbit by 33 minutes — the investigation team has been digging into the implications of how this planetary defense technique could be used in the future, if such a need should ever arise. DART team members provided a preliminary interpretation of their findings during the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting on Thursday, Dec. 15, in Chicago.
  • A satellite image looks down on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano as it erupts on Jan. 15, 2022, with clouds surrounding a circular cloud of vapor and debris
    2022-12-14

    Making a Volcanic Splash: Tonga Eruption Blasted Water Vapor into Outer Space

    The eruption of the mostly submerged Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022, was among the most powerful in the modern era, creating a massive planet-sized shockwave that reverberated around the globe for days. A new Johns Hopkins APL study shows for the first time that the explosion also blasted water vapor past the boundary of outer space.
  • Dragonfly in flight over Titan's surface
    2022-12-07

    Intern on Johns Hopkins APL’s Dragonfly Mission Shoots for the Moon

    Will Suero Amparo, an intern in APL’s Space Exploration Sector, aspires to become an astronaut. Now, working on the Dragonfly space exploration mission through the Dragonfly Student & Early Career Investigator Program, he is one step closer to that dream.

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