18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... to make that definitive conclusion,” said Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California where the rover was built. When is the launch of Perseverance? NASA plans to launch...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
... was a close approximation of our helicopter," said MiMi Aung, project manager for the Mars Helicopter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But this recent test of the flight model was the real deal. This is our...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... there as free-flying spacecraft. With a few km/s of Delta-V (propulsion) capability, free-flying nanosats could be placed into orbit around Mars, ... at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA.
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
...by two key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon, and the astrodynamicist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), played by Donald Glover. The astronaut builds a greenhouse on the red planet using all of the available...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... knowledge production that is essentially under the purview of anthropology - that is, the study of culture. Using NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website, a curious Earth-bound human can track the two Voyager spacecraft, launched 40 years ago...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Interplanetary challenges Interplanetary CubeSats, thanks to their low-cost, could perform highrisk, highreward science Major...
