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2020-07-23

A Mission with Impact

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IMAP Mission Successfully Completes Critical Design Review

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    The recent flight of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity marked another successful test for the JHU APL Integrated Universal Suborbital (JANUS) platform, a sensor designed to observe the conditions inside suborbital space vehicles.
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    2021-06-03

    Solar Mission Reveals New Details About Venus’ Unusual Magnetic Field

    A new study, led by Johns Hopkins APL researchers using data from Solar Orbiter’s first flyby of Venus, found the planet’s unusual magnetic field can still accelerate particles to millions of miles per hour — a finding valuable to understanding magnetospheres around planets outside our solar system.
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    New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone

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    Parker Solar Probe Captures First Complete View of Venus Orbital Dust Ring

    The Johns Hopkins APL-operated Parker Solar Probe captured the first complete view of Venus’s dust ring, a band of particles that stretches for the entirety of the planet’s path around the Sun. The new observation opens a window to understanding how dust is captured and redistributed throughout the solar system.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Johns Hopkins APL Technology Helps Mars Mission Phone Home

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    A New Conceptual Mission Proposes to Study Earth Like an Exoplanet

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    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.

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