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

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

In person, SMART Nav doesn’t look like much. It’s in a metal square that’s laced into a web of soldered wires, resistors and diodes on a circuit board. In fact, technologically speaking, it’s a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among APL’s thousands of critical contributions to national security and space exploration are a number of defining innovations: game-changing breakthroughs in technology that have created inflection ...

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 ...

Learn more about opportunities for current students, new and recent college graduates, doctoral-level professionals, and experienced professionals. Join our team and you’ll be able to pursue ...

Aurora Schmidt is a researcher in the fields of information science, signal processing, and autonomous systems. Her work includes the modeling of information spread in networks; causal inference ...

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; ...