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Several missions led by JPL, including Psyche, NISAR, and Europa Clipper, have either launched or are nearing completion, reducing near-term growth needs at the laboratory.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 100 contractors in early January 2024 and implemented across-the-board spending cuts and a pause on one aspect of the Mars Sample Return program because of an uncertain federal budget for fiscal year 2024.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that the Ingenuity Mars helicopter completed its 70th flight on 2023-12-22.
JPL managed the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate until the mission was retired in January 2020.
The principal investigator for VERITAS, Sue Smrekar of JPL, argued at the VEXAG meeting to limit the delay of the mission due to reduced workload at JPL.
Engineers previously working on the VERITAS mission have had to transition to other projects at JPL.
The 2023-11-21 letter asserts that if JPL is forced to operate at the lower funding level prematurely directed by NASA, JPL will not be able to meet the 2030 launch window and contracts and jobs will be at risk.
At a 2023-11-13 Planetary Science Advisory Committee meeting, NASA instructed Goddard Space Flight Center, JPL, and Marshall Space Flight Center to start ramping back activities related to Mars Sample Return.
The four House members who signed the 2023-11-21 letter represent districts in Southern California, home of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Diana Lovati spent three years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory focused on cybersecurity risk management.
NASA delayed the VERITAS mission by three years to no earlier than 2031 following a review into delays of the Psyche mission that found institutional problems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Institutional issues at JPL identified in the Psyche review led NASA to delay the VERITAS mission, which was selected in 2021 for a 2028 launch and is now scheduled for launch no earlier than 2031.
Argotec will work with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create a streamlined version of the Universal Space Transponder-Lite radio for high-speed deep-space communications services.
Argotec will work with JPL to consolidate existing UST-Lite designs and create a streamlined product capable of delivering high-speed communications services in deep space.
An independent panel that led the investigation into the August 2022 launch slip found significant institutional problems at JPL that contributed to the delay and determined those problems had been addressed as of June 2023.
The independent review board confirmed that issues with Psyche and JPL had been resolved in June 2023.
An imaging spectrometer developed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been handed off to Planet Labs for integration into the Tanager 1 hyperspectral satellite.
JPL engineers conducted drop tests to understand energy absorption during landing for the Sample Retrieval Lander.
Prototypes of the Sample Retrieval Lander's legs and footpads are being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Peraton was awarded a competitive subcontract to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a total contract value of $513,500,000.