July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...the International Business Times, Popular Science, Caltech’s E&S magazine, and WIRED. Rod has written extensively for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. His books published in 2019 include Interplanetary Robots, Space 2.0, and First on the...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
... on 28 July. The instrument features mission-critical Alpha Data hardware developed in a partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). “EMIT consists of a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer capable of investigating visible and...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... since the nearest pilot is millions of miles away on Earth. Not one to shy away from a challenge, engineers at NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, set to work over four years ago to come up with a design that can deal with...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... a nine-month period. One of the new successful applicants is Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, a robotics technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Bandyopadhyay’s idea is to turn a suitable existing lunar crater, one to 50 kilometres...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
... before. “To quote Carl Sagan,” said Gentry Lee, chief engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there’s current and certainly ancient life on Mars...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... to ease movement of cargo on the lunar surface. The brainchild of Ethan Schaler, a robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on a track) offers an infrastructure idea for autonomously...
