APL instrument to fly on first NASA-funded Virgin Galactic spaceflight
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
While Earth's upper atmosphere may soon be a destination for space tourists, scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have set their sights on being among the first to blaze a research trail in this "suborbital" region, with the launch of an instrument to study magnetic activity 50 miles aboveground.