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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (or simply Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center (UARC) in Howard County, Maryland. It is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and employs 8,700 people as of 2024. [2] APL is the nation's largest UARC. [3]
In 1958, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) began to offer advanced technical courses at the graduate level with credit toward Johns Hopkins academic degrees under the auspices of that institution's Evening College. By 1963, APL established a formal center for the Evening College to meet growing demand.
Armed with $20,000 in BuOrd funding, APL established the initial Rocket Propellant Information Agency (RPIA) on 3 December 1946 to consolidate, organize, and catalog the inventory of wartime reports. In 1948, the addition of Army sponsorship and accompanying expansion of agency scope into gun propellants prompted a name change to the Solid ...
Louise Prockter is a planetary scientist and former supervisor of the Planetary Exploration Group at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory. [1] In 2016 the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) announced the appointment of Prockter as Director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas, effective September 6, 2016. [2]
Under Semmel's leadership, the Lab had a wide variety of accomplishments, including the successful Pluto flyby of APL-built New Horizons, [10] [11] the data modeling for the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center [12] and the successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which was the world's first planetary defense test mission. [13]
Robert Fischell in 1963. Robert Fischell (born February 10, 1929) is a physicist, prolific inventor, and holder of more than 200 U.S. and foreign medical patents. [1 ...
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The Frontier Radio is a family of software-defined radios developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (or APL). Four variants have been developed: the Frontier Radio (FR), the Frontier Radio Lite (FR Lite), and the Frontier Radio Multi Lingual (FR ML), and the Next-Gen Frontier Radio.