January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...scheduled to launch in 2018, will use its solar sail propulsion system to send the spacecraft to flyby asteroid 1991VG and ...MSFC) where the solar sail is being developed. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is building the spacecraft. The sail team...
March 2016
Space for art
.... In a recent and creative example of ‘engaging the public’ via a combination of art and science, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) commissioned a Seattle-based company, Invisible Creature, to produce a retro-inspired collection of space tourism...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... unique biological characteristics of the species, to include pathogen destruction, soon caught the eye of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. We are in a new age of discovery driven by genomics and the leveraging of novel biology...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... of MAVEN Project Manager David. F. Mitchell and Project Scientist Joseph M.Grebowsky, both of GSFC. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory participation included navigation and a telecommunications system to provide data relay support for ground assets...
13 March 2020
ExoMars launch postposed until 2022
...the sub-surface of Mars as well as a miniature life-search laboratory kept within an ultra-clean zone. In the frame of a dedicated... tests have been completed successfully at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the main parachutes are ready for the...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...were vital to space research before the 1980s. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was unusual for the time - it began employing ...pass Phase III testing (aeromedical, using military equipment and jets). The other two women were prepared to go through...
