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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Blue Ghost environmental testing was completed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in mid-October 2024.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipNov 25, 2024Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 to the Moon Readies for Launch

The author and a group from Caltech were able to get car passes from JPL for official guest viewing areas at Edwards Air Force Base.

Mentioned as: JPLTechnical ProductNov 25, 2024Review: Waiting for Spaceships

Laurie Leshin wrote that JPL had been working through multiple workforce scenarios to address the dynamic funding environment and had partnered with colleagues at NASA and elsewhere to minimize adverse effects on JPL’s capabilities and team.

Mentioned as: JPLOrg RelationshipNov 13, 2024JPL announces new round of layoffs

In February, JPL laid off 530 employees, equal to 8% of its workforce at the time, because of uncertainties about its fiscal year 2024 budget, particularly spending on the Mars Sample Return program led by the lab.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipNov 13, 2024JPL announces new round of layoffs

The November layoffs at JPL are intended to meet the available funding for fiscal year 2025 and will be spread across JPL from technical to support staff.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative PlanNov 13, 2024JPL announces new round of layoffs

A 2024-11-12 memo from JPL director Laurie Leshin indicates that about 325 employees will be laid off 2024-11-11 to adjust to projected spending levels for fiscal year 2025.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralNov 13, 2024JPL announces new round of layoffs

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 5% of its staff 2024-11-11.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralNov 13, 2024JPL announces new round of layoffs

The JPL revised MSR approach incorporates capabilities from the Artemis lunar exploration effort to perform the final leg from cislunar space back to Earth.

Mentioned as: JPLTechnical ProductNov 7, 2024NASA MSR review continues despite committee leadership change

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory revised the overall MSR architecture to return samples to cislunar space in 2035 and to reduce the projected $11,000,000,000 cost by half.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipNov 7, 2024NASA MSR review continues despite committee leadership change

The JPL revised architecture reduces the Sample Retrieval Lander and Mars Ascent Vehicle size by shrinking the lander weight from up to 3,450 kg to no more than 1,350 kg.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralNov 7, 2024NASA MSR review continues despite committee leadership change

Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) was awarded a concept study contract by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop space-based capabilities for a wildfire early detection warning and active monitoring system.

Mentioned as: NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTechnical ProductOct 29, 2024Spire Global and OroraTech Awarded NASA Contract for Wildfire Monitoring

Before joining ATLAS, Paige Webster worked on flagship missions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralOct 23, 2024SSPI names the 2024 Promise Award Winners at the Future Leaders Celebration @ SVSW

Tanager-1 has been collecting data to verify that its imaging spectrometer, which is based on technology developed at NASA JPL, is functioning properly.

Mentioned as: NASA JPLOrg RelationshipOct 14, 2024First greenhouse gas plumes detected With NASA-designed instrument

NASA installed the EMIT imaging spectrometer developed at JPL aboard the International Space Station in 2022.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralOct 14, 2024First greenhouse gas plumes detected With NASA-designed instrument

Carbon Mapper used data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to release its first methane and carbon dioxide detections from Tanager-1.

Mentioned as: NASA's Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipOct 14, 2024First greenhouse gas plumes detected With NASA-designed instrument

The imaging spectrometer aboard Tanager-1 is a descendant of imaging spectrometers developed at JPL such as AVIRIS and EMIT.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralOct 14, 2024First greenhouse gas plumes detected With NASA-designed instrument

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory deployed ASTERIA to observe the exoplanet 55 Cancri e in 2017.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralOct 7, 2024Cubesats are changing the way we explore the solar system

Astrobotic worked with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory staff to complete the DSN test campaign for Griffin’s flight avionics, ground support software, and mission operations infrastructure.

Mentioned as: NASA's Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipOct 1, 2024Griffin Mission One Ground Testing with NASA’s Deep Space Network a Success

The Deep Space Network managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory completed end-to-end test communications with Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander.

Mentioned as: Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOrg RelationshipOct 1, 2024Griffin Mission One Ground Testing with NASA’s Deep Space Network a Success

The Mars Science Laboratory mission is led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the USA.

Mentioned as: NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNarrative GeneralSep 5, 20241 million shots for ChemCam on Mars
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