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Since its launch in 2001, NASA's TIMED spacecraft, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), has been exploring one of Earth's last atmospheric frontiers. The TIMED community will now have the opportunity to further its studies of Earth's atmosphere when the mission begins an extended campaign in October 2006 with operations and data analysis continuing through 2010.

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Space scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., got a first-hand look at what happens to Earth's atmosphere when the sun was abruptly "turned off" during the March 29, 2006, total solar eclipse.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., will develop and operate twin NASA spacecraft to study how the sun interacts with Earth's radiation belts.

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A device that will allow an amputee to control a prosthetic device with his brain, a mask that can detect an infectious disease before it spreads, a system that can predict the occurrence of dust storms, and a next-generation micro-sensor that can help satellites perform multiple measurements were announced tonight as the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's (APL) Inventions of the Year.

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Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has opened an office near Ft. Monmouth, N.J., to support Army communications programs that enhance national security.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft reached a key checkpoint on its historic journey toward interstellar space, passing into the zone where the solar wind first meets material from interstellar space.

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The solar system's farthest known planetary outpost is closer to getting its first visitor. This week NASA gave The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute and their partners the go-ahead to start full development of the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

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A system to destroy airborne biological agents as they move through a building's heating and air conditioning ducts, developed by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., has been licensed to the Bio-Defense Research Group, Inc. (BDRGI), Upper Marlboro, Md., for production.

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Using a sensitive new imaging instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, researchers have discovered a large and surprisingly dense gas cloud sharing an orbit with Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has signed an exclusive option with Zargis Medical Corp., a spin-off of Siemens Corporate Research, to license heart diagnostic technologies developed jointly by researchers at APL and the Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., have announced the first successful application in the United States of a new commercial standard for developing and exercising interacting federations of simulations.

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NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has added the Student Dust Counter, to be designed, built and "flown" by students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The instrument will detect dust produced by collisions between asteroids, comets and Kuiper Belt objects.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University have forged a strategic partnership, combining APL's proven systems engineering experience with SEI's advanced software expertise.

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Set to visit and study at least two comets, NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) should provide the first detailed look at the differences between these primitive building blocks of the solar system, and answer questions about how comets act and evolve as they speed toward the sun.

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NASA's TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics) spacecraft recently observed our atmosphere's response to a series of strong solar storms, providing important new information on the final link in the Sun-Earth Connection chain of physical processes connecting the Sun and Earth.

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All packed up and ready for its long-awaited trip, NASA's CONTOUR spacecraft left home in Maryland for Cape Canaveral, Fla., site of its scheduled July 1 launch toward an unprecedented comet study.

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The first mission to orbit the planet Mercury took a big step toward its March 2004 launch when NASA's MESSENGER project received approval to start building its spacecraft and scientific instruments.

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New Horizons mission planners have a new strategy that could trim nearly a year off their schedule to send a spacecraft to Pluto.

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CONTOUR -- the spacecraft set to provide the closest look ever at a comet nucleus -- arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to begin a series of prelaunch tests.

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The team that landed the first spacecraft on an asteroid was honored last night at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum with one of the museum's most distinguished awards, the Trophy for Current Achievement.

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The NEAR mission to asteroid Eros landed one of this year's 14th Annual "Best of What's New" Awards by Popular Science magazine, which honors the world's most outstanding breakthrough products and technologies.

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NASA announced that The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will provide a key science instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the spacecraft NASA plans to send to the Red Planet in 2005.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has licensed the international rights to a patented method for diagnosing and treating age-related macular degeneration - a leading cause of vision loss - to Novadaq Technologies Inc.

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Stunning close-up views of asteroid 433 Eros from the descending NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft get top billing in a new movie from NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission. The minute-long movie, available on the NEAR Web site at covers the final moments of NEAR's yearlong orbit at Eros.

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NASA has given the first Mercury orbiter mission approval to move into full-scale spacecraft development - setting up the first trip to the sun's closest neighbor in more than a generation.

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A spacecraft that will explore one of the last frontiers in Earth's atmosphere is nearing launch. NASA's TIMED spacecraft was shipped from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where it was designed and built, to Vandenberg Air Force Base. The spacecraft is currently scheduled to launch from Vandenberg's Western Range on Aug. 10, 2001.

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NEAR mission science team members have concluded that the majority of the small features that make up the surface of asteroid Eros more likely came from an unrelenting bombardment from space debris than internal processes.

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The U.S. Army and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will create a national biotechnology "Center of Excellence" - focusing some of the nation's top minds and research facilities on several critical Army needs.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has broadened use of its Satellite Communications Facility to include industrial space organizations for the first time. The Laboratory has already signed contracts with three companies.

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NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, the first to orbit an asteroid, has met all of its scientific goals in its year of orbiting asteroid Eros, and will now attempt another first: a controlled descent to the surface of the asteroid on Feb. 12.

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Cassini's recent pictures of Jupiter are providing scientists with never-before-seen images of the giant planet's magnetosphere and underlying dynamics.

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The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft - the first to orbit an asteroid - embarks on a series of low-altitude passes over 433 Eros this month in a prelude to a daring February descent to the surface of the rotating, 21-mile-long space rock.

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An engine burn at 3:15 p.m. (EST) put the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in orbit just 22 miles (35 kilometers) above Eros' center of mass in preparation for low altitude operations in January and February, just prior to the mission's end.

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On Oct. 26, after more than eight months in orbit around asteroid Eros, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft will swoop to within three miles (5.3 kilometers) of the asteroid, taking images and collecting data from a distance closer than any spacecraft has ever come to an asteroid.

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Findings from NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission - appearing in a special section of the Sept. 22 issue of the journal Science - confirm that asteroid 433 Eros is a consolidated, primitive sample from the solar system's beginnings.

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Evidence of "folds" on the frozen surface of Europa, providing unprecedented insight into the history and behavior of the Jovian satellite, is reported by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Brown University in the Aug. 11 Science.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has launched a spin-off company, Dot21 Real-Time Systems Inc. (Dot21), to commercialize a type of APL-developed software, commonly referred to as message-oriented middleware.

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Tighter budgets present challenges for space explorers, but creative mission teams can use new ideas, innovative technologies and sound program management to soar beyond financial constraints say international space conference attendees.

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APL's licensing agreement grants Akorn, a specialty pharmaceutical company, exclusive worldwide rights to a patented method for treating a type of age-related macular degeneration.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory recently signed a technology transfer and development agreement with Timonium-based FutureHealth Corporation, licensing APL's expertise in automated and knowledge-intensive systems to automate some of FutureHealth's proprietary business operations.

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More than 300 experts from around the world will address how to explore the solar system for less money, what can we learn from the next generation of space missions and related topics during the fourth International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions, May 2-5, 2000, at Johns Hopkins.

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NEAR team members found evidence of geologic phenomena that could have originated on a much larger parent body from which Eros was derived; they obtained the first ever laser range returns from an asteroid and the first ever X-ray detection of an asteroid.

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The NEAR mission, a NASA Discovery Program being conducted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, will be the first to orbit an asteroid.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md., has created its first start-up company, Syntonics LLC, under an initiative to commercialize some of its inventions and space research and test facilities.

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The Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics spacecraft was transported today to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., where it was designed and built.

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On August 12 a 2-minute hydrazine engine burn put the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, on a direct path to intercept asteroid 433 Eros early next year.

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Four researchers from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., were honored by the International Astronomical Union last night by having asteroids named for them in recognition of their work in the field of space science.

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The MESSENGER mission to investigate the planet Mercury -- led by a Carnegie Institution of Washington Principal Investigator and managed by The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory -- has been selected by NASA as a new Discovery mission.

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The TIMED spacecraft, designed to conduct a global study of a critical region in Earth's atmosphere, is taking shape at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

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Asteroid 433 Eros is slightly smaller than predicted, with at least two medium-sized craters, a long surface ridge, and a density comparable to the Earth's crust, according to measurements from NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft.