29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
..., which was a close approximation of our helicopter," said MiMi Aung, project manager for the Mars Helicopter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But this recent test of the flight model was the real deal. This is our...
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...
13 March 2017
Europa Clipper: the official name of NASA's mission to Europa
... amount of science data, then sails on out of there," said Robert Pappalardo, Europa Clipper project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The mission concept has already completed its first major review by the agency...
March 2016
Space for art
.... In a recent and creative example of ‘engaging the public’ via a combination of art and science, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) commissioned a Seattle-based company, Invisible Creature, to produce a retro-inspired collection of space tourism...
