The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center (UARC) associated with Johns Hopkins University. It serves as a crucial technical resource for the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and other government entities, engaging in space science and spacecraft construction. APL has designed, built, and operated over 70 spacecraft, including missions like the New Horizons probe to Pluto, the Parker Solar Probe, and the DART mission; partners include NASA, ESA, and the U.S. Space Force. Associated keywords: space exploration, spacecraft design, planetary defense, NASA missions, and space technology.
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Johns Hopkins APL is conducting ground vibration tests on Dragonfly in clean rooms in Laurel, Maryland.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has completed frame qualification testing for NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft.
Nadia Zakamska is a professor of astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University.
Intuitive Machines is building its Space Data Network in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory extended operations of York Space Systems’ Polylingual Experimental Terminal demonstration through 2027.
York Space Systems developed and executed the PExT payload in collaboration with NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
On March 30, 2026, NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory extended the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) mission through 2027.
NASA's Van Allen Probes mission was managed and operated by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory tracked the Van Allen probes during their operational lifetime.
Meredith MacGregor is a co-author on the study and is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University.
Dawn Aerospace also flew two other university payloads on the same Pathfinder campaign flight, including California State University and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
York Space Systems’ 2025 missions included BARD, a collaboration with NASA and Johns Hopkins APL, the Dragoon mission for SDA, and the experimental national security mission Tyndal.
RADAR was exercised end-to-end at computing facilities including the Polaris supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Delta and DeltaAI at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Advanced Research Computing at Johns Hopkins.
A collaboration led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory developed the RADAR framework in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, managed IMAP's development phase, built the spacecraft, and operates the mission.
Benjamin Fernando, a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins, and Constantinos Charalambous of Imperial College London used data from 127 seismometers to reconstruct the Shenzhou module’s path.
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Nadia Zakamska led an observing campaign on J0705+0612 using multiple ground-based facilities.
Drew Turner at Johns Hopkins University is the principal investigator for SELINE.
PExT is an in-flight Ka-band wideband technology demonstration managed by NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the IMAP spacecraft.