Jet Propulsion Lab: Government / agency (United States), launches, rockets and satellites

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0Orbital launches

53All launches (incl. suborbital)

10Satellites in orbit

53Satellites built

0Rockets / spacecraft

Jet Propulsion Lab is a government organisation based in the United States, founded in 1958. Our records show 53 launches and 10 satellites in orbit.

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Satellites in orbit

By platform

FlexBus	2
Cubesat 6U	2
IRAS	1
MMS	1
Ministar	1
SMAP	1
Cubesat 3U	1
SphereX	1

Recent launches

Date	Mission	Vehicle	Site	Result
8 Jun 2015	SIAD-R/SSRS	LDSD	KAU	Success
28 Jun 2014	SIAD-R/SSDS	LDSD	KAU	Success
19 Aug 1972	Subsonic	BLDT	WS	Success
13 Aug 1972	Supersonic	BLDT	WS	Success
26 Jul 1972	Transonic	BLDT	WS	Success
11 Jul 1972	Supersonic	BLDT	WS	Failure
14 Oct 1945	R-6	HVAR	WS	Success
14 Oct 1945	R-5	HVAR	WS	Success
13 Oct 1945	R-2	HVAR	WS	Success
13 Oct 1945	R-1	HVAR	WS	Success
13 Oct 1945	R-3	HVAR	WS	Success
13 Oct 1945	R-4	HVAR	WS	Success

In the news

Recent headlines

Computer models let scientists peer into the mystery beneath Jupiter's clouds SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Intuitive Machines’ Moon lander on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Spaceflight Now · 25 Feb 2025
Exploring VERITAS, one of NASA’s new missions to Venus NASASpaceflight · 24 Jul 2021

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Provenance

Where this comes from

This entry merges 1 source: GCAT (J. McDowell)
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Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.