May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... Joseph Hunt declaring the spacecraft decommissioned and the its mission concluded in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on 30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). I was...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... experiments to understand the effects of radiation on electronic devices. Its major space customers have included NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), for which Alpha Data has provided modified COTS design services for firmware, software and ...
01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
...-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, in June. Media were on hand at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, on March 31 to witness one of the final tests that a LDSD test vehicle will undergo before...
24 November 2015
Could Earth be highlighting Hairy Dark Matter?
..., may yet prove to be stranger than originally thought. In new research conducted by Gary Prézeau of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and published this week in the Astrophysical Journal, Prézeau suggests that a stream of dark...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
...Cassini's legacy of discoveries in the Saturn system is profound," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "We won't get this close to Enceladus again with Cassini, but our travels have...
23 November 2016
Massive ice deposits found under the surface of Mars
... and quantity of Martian water," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "We know early Mars had enough liquid water on the surface for rivers and...
