NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on ...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, APL has expanded the frontiers of space science and technology. We took the first picture of Earth from space, invented satellite navigation, dispatched spacecraft ...

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting as soon as September 2025 for the launch of the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and ...

Dr. Richard Danzig has been a consultant to US intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense on national security issues. He served as the seventy-first secretary of the Navy from November 1998 ...

The Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) leverages APL’s broad expertise across national security, space exploration, and health to fundamentally advance the use of intelligent systems for our nation’s ...

Dr. Nour Rawafi is an astrophysicist and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, which launched in 2018. Dr. Rawafi’s research encompasses a wide range of solar and heliospheric ...

APL is located in Laurel, Maryland, situated between Baltimore and Washington, DC, and near I-95. Our main campus spans nearly 461 acres and is home to more than 20 major buildings, as well as a ...

APL Senior Fellows are distinguished experts in national security and space who work together with technical experts at the Laboratory to better inform technology and policy decisions made by U.S.

Dr. Brock Wester is an assistant program manager of Biological and Chemical Sciences in APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Mission Area. He oversees research teams with foci in connectomics; ...

Dr. David Shrekenhamer is a senior staff scientist whose research interests span numerous areas of electromagnetics. With expertise developing concepts that utilize metamaterials for use across the ...

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Dr. Andrew Rivkin is a planetary astronomer whose research centers on the study of asteroids for scientific and planetary defense purposes. As investigation lead for the Double Asteroid Redirection ...