13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... some sort of steadfast but bulky mobile laboratory that ambles over the martian surface looking ... 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 ...
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...
26 August 2016
All eyes on Jupiter as Juno moves in close tomorrow
... 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 time...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
...] 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 Moon...
13 March 2017
Europa Clipper: the official name of NASA's mission to Europa
...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 and is ...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... at temperatures reaching 2,100 degrees Celsius, Neil Tice hopes he can be where the action is on Earth: at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, home of the rovers. He’ll know a parachute is about to deploy and that the two halves of the...
