NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...

Learning from an anomaly during the first BOLT-1A flight, the successful BOLT-1B follow-on flight experiment collected ...

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has named Yu-Han “Hugh” Chen as head of its National Security Analysis Department (NSAD), which provides integrated technical ...

NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have successfully tested wideband technology that allows spacecraft to ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s National Security Space Mission Area enables mission partners at all levels of government to realize highly classified and critically important missions for national security.

We offer a rare opportunity for new graduates. When you begin your career at APL, not only will you have an immediate impact on projects that advance the frontiers of science, but you’ll also be ...

A Robust Retirement Plan We contribute up to 10.5% of your pay to your retirement savings. The 10.5% includes a foundational APL contribution of 2.5% of your pay, plus matching contributions of $2 for ...

Innovation at APL is woven into everything we do and has been at the heart of the Laboratory’s mission since our founding. To ensure that the Lab continues to be a world-class center for research ...

Map of the Johns Hopkins APL campus in Laurel, Maryland.

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 ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s Theater Defense Mission Area creates innovative and effective system solutions to defend forward-deployed U.S. forces, allies, and partners across the globe from the threat of air ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s Civil Space Flight Mission Area delivers critical spaceflight hardware to NASA, international partners, and other U.S. government civilian agencies. We are responsible for all APL ...