APL Advances — December 2024

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory • APL Advances

Critical Contributions to Critical Challenges • December 10, 2024

An illustration of Parker Solar Probe orbiting the Sun.

A Star Explored: Parker Solar Probe's Daring Dive to the Sun's Fiery Edge

On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its final record-breaking flybys of the Sun, capping a nearly 70-year quest to unravel the star’s secrets. Explore the mission’s six-year odyssey of discovery in a new interactive timeline, which highlights its groundbreaking findings and breathtaking imagery that have transformed our understanding of the Sun.

By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, APL researchers have created an antenna that can change its shape based on its temperature.

Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications

Johns Hopkins APL researchers have leveraged cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys to create an antenna that can change its shape — and offers a range of potential commercial, military and scientific applications.

The team from Johns Hopkins APL and the School of Medicine developed a digital holographic imaging system to identify and validate the signal as tissue deformation that occurs during neural activity.

A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

A new high-resolution neural recording method developed by APL and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine detects neural activity through the skull at unprecedented resolutions, expanding possibilities for nonsurgical brain-computer interface.

APL researchers have made significant progress toward addressing some of the fundamental challenges that stand in the way of fieldable multirobot teams becoming reality.

Coordinating Tactical Teams of Autonomous Machines

Lab researchers have made significant progress toward addressing some of the fundamental challenges that stand in the way of fieldable multirobot teams becoming reality.

Space weather events can impact national security in various ways, such as disrupting GPS, radio and satellite communications, or creating drag on satellites and knocking them off course.

Lab Projects Protect National Security Assets From Space Weather

Researchers at APL are working on applications to increase our understanding of how space weather impacts critical national security assets on and above Earth.

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APL Recognized for Support of National Guard and Military Reserve

For the second year in a row, APL has earned Department of Defense recognition for its support of staff members who also serve in National Guard and Reserve units.

The Lab was nominated for the Department of Defense’s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve recognition by Casey R. Smith, a program operations coordinator at APL and a petty officer second class in the U.S. Navy Reserve who works in air support logistics.

Lab's Innovative Research Facility Celebrated on the Global Stage

APL’s Building 201 was recognized as runner-up for Lab of the Year by the Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association, which recognizes innovative laboratory design and excellence across the globe.

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