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...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... Cambridge, a planetary science PhD from Oxford; and has worked as a research fellow at Oxford and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a co-investigator on the Cassini CIRS (thermal-infrared) instrument, and Interdisciplinary Scientist for ESA...
05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
...It’s a great day.” Last night at 11.53 p.m. EDT, Juno tracking data alerted the navigation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California of a successful orbit insertion sequence by the spacecraft, burning up 785 kilograms...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
... [LRO] and the “lost” Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Pioneered by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the technique involves sending a powerful beam of microwaves directed toward the...
