Go IMAP! So proud of the amazing team who came together from across the nation to design, build, test and fly this important space weather heliophysics mission! Thanks ⁦⁦@NASAKennedy⁩ for the amazing support and ⁦@SpaceX⁩ - for the beautiful ride!

Set for launch in 2028, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will explore Saturn’s moon Titan. And the work is underway to ensure that this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious exploration vision. Read about the testing being done at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics

Thanks @blueorigin and Honeybee! Great news. Go Dragonfly!

After a three-and-a-half-month journey, @NASA’s IMAP spacecraft has reached the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point, where it will begin its groundbreaking mission to study the edge of our solar system and advance our knowledge of space weather.

Navigation update: We've arrived! NASA's IMAP and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory missions have arrived in their target orbit at L1, the Sun–Earth Lagrange point. Launched together, the two spacecraft have now reached their operational location.

Dragonfly is one step closer 🚁 Ahead of its 2028 launch, @NASA_Langley and @JHUAPL teams completed major rotor fabrication and testing milestones – paving the way for safe flight in Titan’s dense atmosphere in 2034. Learn more: https://t.co/MC6wAcD0bS

The BOLT-1B experiment successfully collected measurements that will advance understanding of complex physics important to hypersonic flight. A team of researchers, including staff from APL, will present key takeaways at January’s AIAA SciTech Forum.

DRAGONFLY We are sending a drone the size of a small car to TITAN!

@MattGialich I love Dragonfly..An autonomous ~1,000-pound, radioisotope-powered octocopter flying for years in −290°F temps on Titan is exactly the kind of near-impossible science mission NASA exists to achieve.

Heliophysics missions move toward operations https://t.co/oC4khTmsIR

One year since @NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-setting closest approach to the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, coming within 3.8M miles of the surface. Designed, built, and operated by APL, the spacecraft continues delivering groundbreaking results.

NASA and Johns Hopkins APL have successfully tested a first-of-its-kind wideband technology that enabled a spacecraft to communicate with both government and commercial networks - providing a new pathway for flexible, resilient mission communications.

NASA is advancing two new heliophysics mission concepts! CINEMA: 9 satellites to study Earth’s magnetosphere and plasma energy flows CMEx: Exploring the Sun’s chromosphere and drivers of space weather These missions will deepen our understanding of space weather and its

A predictive model developed by Johns Hopkins APL and partners to simulate how solar storms affect Earth is now publicly available to space weather researchers and the broader scientific community. https://t.co/c8gHCZV0DL @NASASpaceAlerts

@NASA has selected @dartmouth and Johns Hopkins APL to begin development of the CINEMA mission. CINEMA’s nine small satellites will study Earth’s magnetotail and aurora to improve understanding of space weather.

Johns Hopkins APL merges analytic and AI capabilities into GenWar Lab, a forward-leaning incubator for advanced AI and LLM tools that enhance wargames and tabletop exercises, helping military decision-makers explore dynamic mission scenarios.

🌕📡 Advancing interoperable communications and navigation for lunar exploration. Intuitive Machines, @LDO_Space, and @Telespazio have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to promote interoperability between the Moonlight Lunar Communication and Navigation System and our

From using AI to design antibiotics that outpace antimicrobial resistance and redirecting an Earth-bound asteroid to fighting cancer with astronomy, these are the ideas changing our world. 🔗 Learn more about the World Changing Ideas Summit from @FastCompany and @JohnsHopkins:

📡 Space missions rely on continuous data, but today’s networks are fragmented and limited in coverage and responsiveness.    To help solve that, we’re partnering with @JHUAPL to build safe, secure communications and navigation for the cislunar region. Read more:

APL and @int_machines are building advanced comms and navigation systems to enable a sustained U.S. presence on and around the Moon. This partnership supports @NASA’s Artemis program and future national security in cislunar space.

BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system: