13 February 2024
Thales Alenia Space to provide comms for planetary defence mission
...m across that would be capable of causing significant damage should they impact Earth. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NEO Surveyor will journey 1.5 million kilometres to a region of gravitational stability – called the L1 Lagrange...
21 July 2016
International Astronautical Congress to Present 2016 Awards in Mexico
... IAF World Space Award, to Dr. Yuri Koptev of ROSCOSMOS The Allan D. Emil Memorial Award, to Dr. Charles Elachi of Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CIT The Frank J. Malina Astronautics Medal, to Ms. Bénédicte Escudier of ISAE-SUPAERO The IAF Hall of Fame...
26 February 2018
Exploring the Planets – A Memoir
...either in history books or biographies; it is rare to read a memoir from a British space scientist who served at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the early part of his career and this provides an interesting perspective. Fred Taylor spent the ...
19 July 2018
The Long Space Age
... American spaceflight is the re-emergence of a long-running trend, not a new phenomenon”. Written by an economist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (a rare bird indeed), this book investigates – in the words of its subtitle - “the economic origins...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... with safely landing were considered prohibitive,” said Ken Farley, project scientist for Mars 2020 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “But what was once out of reach is now conceivable, thanks to the 2020 engineering team and advances...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
.... After more than a thousand commands to restore contact, engineers in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made their last attempt to revive Opportunity Tuesday, to no avail. The solar-powered rover's final...
