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May 10, 2023 · Read the latest news and discoveries from JPL’s dozens of active space missions exploring Earth, the solar system and worlds beyond.
JPL Workforce Update | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
3 days ago · Workforce statement and memo to employees. JPL statement issued on Nov. 12, 2024: While we have taken various measures to meet our current FY’25 budget allocation, we have reached the difficult decision to reduce the JPL workforce through layoffs. This reduction affects approximately 325 of our colleagues, an impact of about 5% of our workforce.
NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024
Oct 30, 2024 · NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is testing technologies that could allow spacecraft to “sail on sunlight,” using the Sun’s rays for propulsion. Like a sailboat turning to catch the wind, a solar sail adjusts its trajectory by angling its sail supported by booms deployed from the spacecraft. This demonstration uses a ...
NASA to Preview Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter Moon
The mission is targeting an Oct. 10, 2024, launch. NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery …
Oct 28, 2024 · The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
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May 22, 2024 · A leader in robotic space exploration, JPL has sent rovers to Mars, probes to our solar system’s farthest reaches, telescopes into space to study the universe, and satellites into Earth orbit to better understand our home planet.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to shed hundreds more staff
2 days ago · NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will need to lose hundreds more workers as managers seek to meet the current FY'25 budget allocation. Approximately 5 percent of JPL's workforce will be laid off – amounting to about 325 workers – across the organization's technical, business, and support areas. The announcement was made in a memo from ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab announces hundreds of layoffs: …
2 days ago · NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is laying off 5% of its workforce, or roughly 325 of its employees. The move follows previous lay-offs that the company made in February.
NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space …
Oct 28, 2024 · This integration took place at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where the space telescope is located and in development. This milestone follows the coronagraph’s arrival at the center earlier this year from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the instrument was developed, built, and tested.