18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... samples to Earth 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...
26 August 2016
All eyes on Jupiter as Juno moves in close tomorrow
... Jupiter this closely, or over the poles in this fashion," said Steve Levin, Juno project scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "This is our first opportunity and there are bound to be surprises. We need to take our...
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...
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...
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.
