The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a federally funded research and development center managed by Caltech for NASA, is a leading center for robotic space exploration. JPL designs, builds, and operates planetary robotic spacecraft, Earth-orbit, and astronomy missions, including rovers sent to Mars, probes to the outer solar system, and satellites studying Earth. It also manages NASA's Deep Space Network and partners with organizations like NASA, ESA, and universities like Georgia Tech to advance space science and technology.
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Ray Baker leads MoonFall at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Firefly Aerospace won an $80 million contract to deliver JPL's MoonFall spacecraft to the Moon.
NASA will hold a competition for the contract to manage the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when Caltech’s current agreement expires in 2028.
NASA is setting up a competition for the contract to manage the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when Caltech’s current agreement expires in 2028.
NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace a $75 million subcontract through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for lunar drone deployment on the MoonFall mission.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory contributed the Advanced Microwave Radiometer, the Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation instrument, and the Laser Retroreflector Array to each Sentinel-6 satellite.
NASA’s current contract with Caltech for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory began on Oct. 1, 2018 and runs through Sept. 30, 2028.
NASA has awarded Jet Propulsion Laboratory management and operations contracts on a sole-source basis since the laboratory was transferred from the U.S. Army to NASA in 1958.
Caltech has managed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since the laboratory’s origins in the 1930s.
NASA will run a competition for the next contract to manage and operate the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
NASA’s current Jet Propulsion Laboratory contract has a potential maximum value of $30 billion if all options are exercised.
NASA intends to keep the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s existing physical location.
NASA will compete the contract to manage the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC).
In April 2026, Ubotica partnered with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Open Cosmos on the Flight Demonstration of Federated Autonomous Measurement mission.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech, leads the U.S. component of NISAR.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provided NISAR’s L-band SAR and antenna reflector.
In October of the previous year, Argotec opened a second U.S. laboratory near Los Angeles next to NASA JPL.
The Roman Space Telescope involves NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and a science team from multiple research institutions.
A high-power electric thruster completed five successful ignitions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Carbon Mapper’s Advanced Emissions Monitoring Imaging Spectrometer was developed in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.