2021-04-08
Europa Clipper Builds Hardware, Moves Toward Assembly
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission has passed a significant milestone, completing its Critical Design Review. Being developed by Johns Hopkins APL and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the mission can now start to assemble and test the spacecraft and its payload of sophisticated science instruments.
2021-04-07
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Primed to Tap New Space Telescope's Potential
A dozen proposals submitted by researchers at APL have been selected for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of operation, observing everything from asteroids in our solar system to exoplanets around the Milky Way galaxy.
2021-03-18
Johns Hopkins APL Technology Helps Mars Mission Phone Home
The Emirates Mars Mission, also known as “Hope,” stays connected to its operators on Earth using a novel radio provided by APL.
2021-03-17
A New Conceptual Mission Proposes to Study Earth Like an Exoplanet
A new conceptual mission developed by Johns Hopkins APL researchers proposes to send a small spacecraft to view Earth as if it were a potentially habitable exoplanet, helping validate whether the methods currently used to look for habitable worlds can even detect life on the one planet where we know it exists.
2021-03-12
NASA Extends Johns Hopkins APL Leadership of Lunar Innovation Initiative
NASA has tapped APL to continue supporting the agency’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative, which aims to spur the development and deployment of technologies enabling humans to live and work on the Moon.
2021-02-25
Parker Solar Probe Offers Stunning View of Venus
During Parker Solar Probe’s third Venus flyby, the camera aboard the Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft captured a striking — and surprising — image of the planet’s nightside.
2021-02-18
Perseverance Mission Highlights CRISM’s Continued Contributions to Martian Science
Perseverance is the most advanced Mars rover yet, strategically dispatched to a spot teeming with indicators of long-gone liquid water and, possibly, fossilized Martian life. Data from the Johns Hopkins APL-built CRISM imaging spectrometer factored into NASA’s selection of the Perseverance landing site.
2021-02-12
NEAR Landing Left a Lasting Space Exploration Legacy
On Feb. 12, 2001, a carefully designed series of maneuvers brought the APL-built NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft to the surface of 433 Eros — the first-ever landing on an asteroid. The trailblazing accomplishment pointed the way for future missions.
2021-02-12
Little Moon Io helps Jupiter Accelerate Charged Particles to Incredible Speeds
Data from the APL-built JEDI instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal Jupiter’s moon Io accelerates protons to millions of miles per hour through an invisible link.