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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.
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.
Astrobotic received $2,000,000 to work with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Kennedy Space Center to continue development of small rovers.
Xenesis is based in Chicago and emerged from stealth mode in 2018 with plans to sell a small optical transceiver developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Xenesis emerged from stealth mode in 2018 with plans to sell a small optical transceiver developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Lunar Trailblazer, developed by Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a lunar orbiter designed to map water ice deposits using advanced infrared instruments.
The Europa Clipper mission, planned for a 2023 launch, plans to use the same JPL clean room and has stricter cleanliness requirements that could force Psyche integration and testing to be conducted off-site.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory will use InSight’s robotic arm to lift the support structure for the HP3 in order to troubleshoot the instrument.
By December 2018, the understaffing for the Europa Clipper mission at JPL grew to 67 positions.
As of October 2018, Europa Clipper was understaffed by 42 full-time equivalent positions at JPL.
Apollo Fusion will deliver three MaSMi-based thrusters to JPL primarily for ground testing, with one of the thrusters potentially usable on a future spacecraft.
Apollo Fusion signed an agreement with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that gives Apollo Fusion an exclusive worldwide commercial license for JPL’s Magnetically Shielded Miniature (MaSMi) Hall thruster technology and a contract to provide JPL with three MaSMi-based thrusters.
JPL delivered COWVR to the Air Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office prior to cancellation of ORS-6 launch plans due to problems with the satellite bus.
The U.S. Air Force plans to test a small microwave sensor developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the International Space Station in 2021.
Mechanical actuators for various parts of the Mars 2020 rover have been delivered to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
As of 2019-02-05, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had not received signals from either of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) cubesats since the beginning of the year.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has about 6,000 employees and a $2,500,000,000 budget in 2018.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has not furloughed employees due to the government shutdown and may have to consider mission-by-mission staffing adjustments if Congress does not approve NASA funding by the end of January.
NASA pays the California Institute of Technology to manage the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research and development center in Pasadena, California.
Caltech operates JPL under a $15 billion, five-year NASA contract that began on 2018-10-01.