APL Advances — October 2022

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory • APL Advances

Critical Contributions to Critical Challenges • October 11, 2022

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. DART’s onboard DRACO imager captured this image from a distance of 42 miles (68 kilometers).

DART Mission Impacts Asteroid Target in World First

Ten months after launch, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration — successfully impacted its asteroid target Dimorphos on Sept. 26. Mission control at Johns Hopkins APL, where the spacecraft was built, announced the successful impact at
7:14 p.m. EDT.

APL celebrated staff members’ impact and achievements at the annual APL Achievement Awards ceremony, which was held earlier this year.

APL Achievement Awards Celebrate Staff Members’ Bold Innovations and Game-Changing Impact

The Lab celebrated staff members’ initiatives and accomplishments during the 2022 APL Achievement Awards ceremony. The event recognized 178 staff members as part of 29 winning entries.

The cross-divisional team developed a microseminar, giving students the opportunity to manipulate a robotic swarm in an online environment.

APL Earns Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Challenge Honors

Lab researchers earned two first-place awards and one second-place award in an additive manufacturing modeling challenge from the National Institute of Standards and Technology-led Additive Manufacturing Benchmark 2022 Test Series, known as AM-Bench.

Novel Teaching Tool Earns Hopkins Collaborators International Conference Honors

An APL and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine team earned a best paper award at the 2022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, for documenting how they developed an interactive microseminar to teach neuroscience, robotics and computer science to high school students.

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The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium's (LSIC) overall goal is to foster communication and collaboration among academia, industry, non-profits, and government.

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) Fall Meeting

Nov. 2-3, 2022 • University of Texas at El Paso and Online

The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) fall meeting will be held on Nov. 2-3, 2022, at the University of Texas at El Paso and online. The event will feature interrelationships between the six focus areas identified by the consortium, with a specific focus on how they relate to excavation and construction. LSIC’s overall goal is to foster communication and collaboration among academia, industry, nonprofits and government. The fall meeting will feature individual invited talks, group and panel discussions, as well as poster sessions, breakout groups and networking opportunities.

APL’s Egan Named Lab’s First Full-Time Sustainability Manager

Elizabeth Egan became the Lab’s first full-time sustainability manager in June. She’ll play a critical role in implementing the Johns Hopkins Sustainability Plan at APL, while setting a path for long-term stewardship and compliance on campus.

Elizabeth Egan, pictured here in APL’s Army Corps restoration area, was selected as the Lab’s first full-time sustainability manager in June.

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