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Johns Hopkins APL Expertise Supports New Navy Jammer

The Next Generation Jammer features high-power amplifier technology and an extended range. APL provided technical insight and ...
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Moss Appointed to National Industrial Security Policy Committee

Leonard Moss Jr. has been appointed to the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC), the ...
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NASA’s IMAP Reaches Orbit to Start Study of Heliosphere and Space Weather

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...
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Global Partners to Highlight BOLT Hypersonic Experiment Success

Learning from an anomaly during the first BOLT-1A flight, the successful BOLT-1B follow-on flight experiment collected ...
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Giving Spacecraft the Power To Guide Themselves

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 ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the ...
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A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

Controlling a computer with your mind was once pure science fiction, but it’s now plausible thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Today’s BCI systems have achieved extraordinary ...
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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications

The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...
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AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing

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 ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Publishes Report on Nation’s First Space Weather Simulation Exercise

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, recently released the results of the nation’s first end-to-end Space Weather Tabletop Exercise (TTX), held in May 2024. The ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Teams with Intuitive Machines to Advance Cislunar Communications and Navigation

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Intuitive Machines Inc., of Houston, have signed a cooperation agreement to partner on providing safe, secure and reliable ...
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GenWar Sim

APL’s GenWar Sim capability integrates large language models (LLMs) with the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM)—making high-fidelity simulations accessible to users ...