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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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The E-THEMIS thermal emission imaging instrument was delivered to JPL by the Arizona State University team developing the instrument.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipJun 8, 2022The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is completed

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released on 2022-05-27 a video compiled from images taken by Ingenuity on a record-setting flight on 2022-04-08.

Mentioned as: jet propulsion laboratoryTechnical ProductMay 30, 2022Ingenuity “hunkering down” during Martian dust storms and winter

Jason Achilles Mezilis entered the space sector in 2016 and secured a role helping design the microphone for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after conducting extensive research and cold calls to people at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralMay 25, 2022Experts offer advice for space sector entrepreneurs

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission website still listed an 2022-08-01 launch for Psyche as of early 2022-05-24.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTechnical ProductMay 24, 2022Software problem delays NASA Psyche launch

The last NASA agency update for Psyche, published 2022-05-02, described the spacecraft’s shipment from JPL to the Kennedy Space Center to begin launch preparations on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.

Mentioned as: JPLTechnical ProductMay 24, 2022Software problem delays NASA Psyche launch

Space Micro Inc., powered by Voyager Space and based in San Diego, California, delivered seven flight-level Single Board Computers (SBCs) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE).

Mentioned as: NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipMay 17, 2022SBCs For JPL’s SunRISE Mission Delivered By Voyager Space’s Space Micro

The FINDER radar instrument developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been used to find people trapped by natural disasters.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTechnical ProductMay 11, 2022Geospatial World Leadership Awards Announced at GWF 2022

Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center managed by the California Institute of Technology for NASA.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipMay 11, 2022Geospatial World Leadership Awards Announced at GWF 2022

Defossé began his 30-year career as a spacecraft mission design engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralMay 5, 2022Slingshot Aerospace Has Hired A New COO, And Promoted Another To Chief Scientist

A consortium led by the State of California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Planet plans to launch a Carbon Mapper constellation equipped with hyperspectral sensors to detect, quantify, and track sources of methane and carbon dioxide.

Mentioned as: NASA's Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipApr 26, 2022ACT to embed thermal management in Carbon Mapper structures

Only one of Psyche’s twin 37-foot-long (11.3-meter-long) solar arrays can be deployed at a time in JPL’s High Bay 2 clean room because of their length.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralMar 8, 2022NASA’s Psyche Gets Huge Solar Arrays For Trip To Metal-Rich Asteroid

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts awarded a $2,000,000 grant in 2020 to a team that includes NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, and Xplore for work on technology to harness the sun’s gravitational field to gather imagery of planets orbiting distant stars.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipFeb 26, 2022Xplore banks $16.2 million for space-as-a-service

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Near-Earth Object Studies assesses that the object is likely the Chinese Chang’e-5 T1 booster launched in 2014.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralFeb 21, 2022China claims rocket stage destined for lunar impact is not from its 2014 moon mission

GeoOptics is providing commercial radio occultation data from space building on a 25-year Jet Propulsion Laboratory heritage.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipFeb 17, 2022GeoOptics Award of NOAA Data Order

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory places the tentative timeline for launching the Sample Retrieval Lander as early as 2028 and for samples returning to Earth in the early to mid 2030s.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralFeb 8, 2022Lockheed Martin wins contract to build rocket for Mars Sample Return

Laurie Leshin will become director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on 2022-05-16.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipJan 28, 2022Leshin to be next director of JPL

The California Institute of Technology established the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1936 and has operated it for NASA since 1958.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralJan 28, 2022Leshin to be next director of JPL

Caltech operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA as a center for developing and operating robotic space exploration missions.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipJan 28, 2022Leshin to be next director of JPL

The California Institute of Technology selected Laurie Leshin as the next director of JPL on 2022-01-27.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralJan 28, 2022Leshin to be next director of JPL

Producing Deep Space Network schedules in minutes rather than hours allows JPL to create many candidate schedules and be more agile as missions and demands increase.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralJan 27, 2022Microsoft helps JPL with Deep Space Network scheduling
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