04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
...for as long as possible. Hoping to resolve the problem, the Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the situation. Their solution was to hand over the job of manoeuvring...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
...around hydrothermal vents is a team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California who have built their own small-... Not only that but Cassini has already revealed that jets of icy particles which shoot out at about 800 miles...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... radiation doses - they actually thrive there In fact, this type of research was what got me into NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where I worked as a visiting researcher. As soon as I found out that there are researchers there studying...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... human space exploration paradigm. About the author Tibor Balint is a Principal Human Centred Designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His current work...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... before that deployment time period is up,” says Mark Panning, a co-investigator on the InSight mission based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mobile service tower at SLC-3 is rolled back to reveal the ULA Atlas-V rocket that launched...
26 February 2016
SpaceX's Garrett Katzenstein joins Rocket Lab
..., and sales. In the past, Katzenstein has successfully managed programs to place robotics on Mars with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and managed multiple successful missions to fly the Dragon Capsule (SpaceX) to the International Space Station...
