Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

New Robotic Arm Opens Doors to Explore Future of Maritime Repair

Johns Hopkins APL has installed a state-of-the-art robotic arm to advance repair and manufacturing for the maritime ...
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NASA Launches IMAP Mission to Study the Heliosphere and Better Understand Space Weather

Into a Sun-soaked sky above the Florida coast, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:30 a.m ...
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NASA’s Dragonfly Soaring Through Key Development, Test Activities

NASA’s Dragonfly mission has cleared several key design, development and testing milestones and remains on track toward launch in July 2028. Dragonfly, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft being ...
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Johns Hopkins APL’s Next-Generation Solid-State Refrigeration Technology Wins 2025 R&D 100 Award

APL staff members (from left to right) Nathan Fairbanks, Jonathan Pierce and Rama Venkatasubramanian used metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to produce CHESS materials — an approach well ...
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Rapidly Fielding Autonomous Systems at Sea

As the Department of Defense aims to accelerate delivery of autonomous systems to the warfighter, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are lending their insights and ...
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Giare Named Head of Johns Hopkins APL’s Air and Missile Defense Sector

Vishal Giare has been appointed head of the Air and Missile Defense Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. In this role, Giare will lead APL’s efforts to ...
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Johns Hopkins APL, Navy Team up to Advance Additive Manufacturing for Critical Missions

Over the past decade, additive manufacturing has emerged as a disruptive force in advanced defense manufacturing. However, skepticism about its reliability — particularly for building crucial military ...
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Nano-engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with ...
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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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Accelerating Qubit Testing With Cosmic Rays on Demand

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have demonstrated a working capability that can radically accelerate the testing of qubits — the quantum computing ...
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Johns Hopkins APL, Microsoft Collaborate to Advance Robotics and Materials Discovery Using AI

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Microsoft, of Redmond, Washington, have agreed to collaborate to accelerate innovation in robotics and materials discovery ...