Mike Buckley
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New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone
NASA’s New Horizons is reaching a rare deep-space milepost — 50 astronomical units from the Sun, or 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. The Johns Hopkins APL-operated New Horizons is just the fifth spacecraft to reach this great distance, following the legendary Voyagers 1 and 2 and Pioneers 10 and 11.
Johns Hopkins APL Hosts NASA-FEMA Exercise to Simulate Nation’s Asteroid Impact Response
Representatives from a host of federal, state and local agencies convened recently at APL for the fourth iteration of a Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise to assess our nation’s ability to respond effectively to a (simulated) asteroid impact threat to Earth.
NASA Taps Johns Hopkins APL to Lead Lunar Exploration Research Team
APL leads one of five teams that NASA recently selected to collaborate on lunar science and lunar sample analysis research, as part of the agency’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
A Fast Five: Durable Parker Solar Probe Exceeding an Exploration Vision
Five years after launch, having flown through the hottest swaths of the inner solar system, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe isn’t just surviving, it’s thriving.
A Taste of Titan
The Titan Chamber — APL’s largest environmental simulator — is open for business. The team developing NASA’s Dragonfly mission recently took the chamber for an opening run with a full-scale thermal model of the rotorcraft lander it will send to Saturn’s moon Titan later this decade.
Johns Hopkins APL Space Scientist Denevi Earns NASA Solar System Exploration Award
APL planetary geologist Brett Denevi has earned the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute’s Angioletta Coradini Award for her research accomplishments.
Parker Solar Probe Team Garners NASA Honors
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team has earned agency honors for its novel efforts to guide a spacecraft toward record-setting close distances from the Sun — and revealing more about our star than mission planners and scientists ever expected.
Twenty Years After Launch, MESSENGER’s Exploration Legacy Endures
Marking the 20th anniversary of MESSENGER’s launch, APL looks back on a trailblazing mission that showed the world a new way to conduct first-of-its-kind space exploration.
NASA’s Sun-Bound Parker Solar Probe Swings Through Final Venus Flyby
Parker Solar Probe completed its seventh and final Venus gravity-assist maneuver, swinging onto a path that will bring it to within an unprecedented 3.8 million miles of the solar surface this Christmas Eve.
Dragonfly Mission Passes Critical Design Review
The Johns Hopkins APL-led team working on the first rotorcraft designed for scientific exploration on another ocean world has passed its Critical Design Review, a major milestone confirming that Dragonfly’s design is mature and the team can turn its attention to construction and testing of the spacecraft itself.
Flight Engineers Give NASA’s Dragonfly Lift
When NASA’s Dragonfly begins full rotorcraft integration and testing in early 2026, the mission team will tap into a trove of data gathered through critical technical trials conducted over the past three years.
Dragonfly Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage
Integration and testing — the activities involved in assembling the Dragonfly rotorcraft lander and testing it for the rigors of launch and extreme conditions of space — is officially underway in Johns Hopkins APL clean rooms and control rooms.