NASA and APL have successfully tested a wideband technology that enabled, for the first time, a spacecraft to communicate ...

APL has named Yu-Han “Hugh” Chen as head of the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD). Chen, who previously served as ...

A predictive space weather model developed by APL and partners that is designed to simulate how solar storms affect Earth is ...

CINEMA, a mission to improve understanding of the growing impacts of space weather, has been competitively selected by NASA ...

For the eighth consecutive year, APL appears on Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT list, which recognizes the top ...

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.

In person, SMART Nav doesn’t look like much. It’s in a metal square that’s laced into a web of soldered wires, resistors and diodes on a circuit board. In fact, technologically speaking, it’s a ...

The Applied Physics Laboratory, a not-for-profit division of the Johns Hopkins University, meets critical national challenges through the innovative application of science and technology. Our experts ...

Rumblings of a mysterious new virus impacting the region of Wuhan, China, began making the news rounds in the U.S. starting in early 2020. At the time, the virus seemed like a distant worry — too far ...

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Director Ralph D. Semmel has announced that he will step down from his role in July 2025, marking the conclusion of 15 remarkable years leading the ...

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...