Tag: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Image showing the night sky with a hot pink and purple aurora.

June 24, 2024 / David Lawrence and Patrick Peplowski

The Psyche Spacecraft: The Solar System’s Newest Interplanetary Meteorologist?

Most people don’t think about weather in space (or that space may even have weather!), but the effects of space weather were hard to miss in early May 2024. The Sun is currently in an agitated...

October 21, 2021 / David Lawrence and Patrick Peplowski

The Path to Psyche Starts at Mercury and Moves through Long Island

Building a flight instrument for our asteroid mission Everyone has their story for how they made their way to the Psyche mission. For some of us on the Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS)...