21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
...InSight Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt, who is based at JPL. SEIS was carefully placed onto the martian surface after... bed facility based at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Like one of NASA's other famous...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... Polidan, Lunar Resources Inc. in Houston : FarView: In-situ Manufactured Lunar Far Side Radio Observatory. Ethan Schaler, JPL (two selections) : FLOAT: Flexible Levitation on a Track and SWIM: Sensing with Independent Micro-swimmers. Jane Shevtsov...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
...things will happen." NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, conducts mission operations and...Infrared Science Archive housed at IPAC at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, California, built the ...
26 April 2021
Ingenuity makes its third flight on Mars
... on the Red Planet? Lots of things have to go just right for the camera to do that, said Gerik Kubiak, a JPL software engineer. Aside from focusing on the algorithm that tracks surface features, the team needs the...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...who at the time was visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the spacecraft’s orbit ... a little ingenuity, a second fly-by could be arranged. JPL looked into Colombo’s idea and found that by carefully choosing...
05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
...data alerted the navigation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California of a successful orbit insertion sequence ...odometer,” said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager from JPL. “Jupiter orbit insertion was a big step and...
