Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where the ...

As APL’s new mission area executive for Research and Exploratory Development, Joan Hoffmann aims to advance the Laboratory’s ...

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Since the dawn of the Space Age, APL has expanded the frontiers of space science and technology. We took the first picture of Earth from space, invented satellite navigation, dispatched spacecraft ...

APL is bringing all of its core competencies to bear on this critical challenge area, assembling top experts from a variety of scientific fields and partners from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise, ...

Dr. Richard Danzig has been a consultant to US intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense on national security issues. He served as the seventy-first secretary of the Navy from November 1998 ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s National Security Space Mission Area enables mission partners at all levels of government to realize highly classified and critically important missions for national security.

Dr. Bart Paulhamus is a principal staff researcher and chief of APL’s Intelligent Systems Center. The goal of the center is to conduct pioneering research with mission intent. Recognizing that ...

The Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) leverages APL’s broad expertise across national security, space exploration, and health to fundamentally advance the use of intelligent systems for our nation’s ...

Dr. Sarah Herman is the program manager for Biological and Chemical Sciences. She leads a diverse and expansive portfolio of research projects. With over two decades of professional experience in ...

Dr. Elizabeth Congdon is the chief technologist for the Engineering Branch in the Space Exploration Sector. She was the lead engineer for the Parker Solar Probe thermal protection system and the ...