14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
.... After more than a thousand commands to restore contact, engineers in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made their last attempt to revive Opportunity Tuesday, to no avail. The solar-powered rover's final...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... into those things and empower people to use them, then truly incredible things will happen." NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, conducts mission operations and manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for the...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... we attempted to do – to dig so deep with a device so small – is unprecedented,” said Troy Hudson, a scientist and engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California who has led efforts to get the mole deeper into the Martian crust...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... than 48 hours away from attempting to land the agency’s fifth rover on the Red Planet. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the mission is managed, have confirmed that the spacecraft is healthy and on target...
07 April 2021
Ingenuity survives first cold martian night on its own
... Ingenuity has been on its own on the surface of Mars,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “But we now have confirmation that we have the right insulation, the right heaters, and...
26 April 2021
Ingenuity makes its third flight on Mars
... per second). After data came back from Mars starting at 10:16 am EDT (14:16 am GMT), Ingenuity’s team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California was ecstatic to see the helicopter soaring out of view. They’re already digging through...