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A microwave radiometer developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory supports the radar altimeter by measuring atmospheric water vapor to provide timing corrections.
NASA awarded General Atomics $38,500,000 in 2018 to send the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA), an instrument developed by JPL, into orbit on Orbital Test Bed-2.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory serves as the control center for the Mars 2020 mission.
More than 1,000 people were involved with the Mars 2020 mission, with about 100 people at Cape Canaveral and several hundred more working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
GeoOptics developed its radio occultation sensors with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tyvak.
On-site personnel at JPL include staff making final preparations for the Mars 2020 mission launching in July, personnel working on a few other critical projects, and employees involved in the safety and security of the lab.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is operated by Caltech and has been at Stage 3 since March.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed the Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally (VITAL), a ventilator designed for treating COVID-19 patients that is simpler and faster to build than conventional ventilators and uses only a small fraction of the parts of a conventional ventilator.
The California Institute of Technology will issue a royalty-free license to any company interested in manufacturing the VITAL ventilator, and JPL does not plan to mass-produce VITAL.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory personnel working on the last set of Mars 2020 hardware were rapidly transitioning to telework as the hardware was completed.
On 2020-02-21, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided to use the robotic arm to push on the top, or back cap, of the mole to force the mole into the ground.
Europa Clipper met a JPL recommendation of 25% unallocated future expenses (UFE) after completing a final delta preliminary design review in June 2019.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with the ASTERIA spacecraft on 2020-01-03.
NASA decided in September 2019 to pursue the NEO Surveillance Mission as a directed mission led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory rather than as a competed Discovery program mission.
Amy Mainzer moved from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to the University of Arizona earlier in 2019 and will serve as survey director for the NEO Surveillance Mission.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory plans to purchase Morpheus thrusters to test and qualify them for future NASA missions.
NASA is assisting ESA with ground tests of the parachute extraction systems using facilities at JPL, with that testing to be completed before the early-2020 high-altitude balloon tests.
On 2019-10-17, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recorded that the mole moved about two centimeters deeper into the surface between 2019-10-08 and 2019-10-17.
Astrobotic will partner with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to equip CubeRover with a smart vision system that can adapt resolution to provide high definition for critical science targets and lower definition for routine navigation to preserve bandwidth.
Bobby Braun will join the Jet Propulsion Laboratory effective 2019-01-15 as a member of its executive team charged with leading the center’s planetary exploration missions.