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...
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...
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...
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...
