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  • 'Big Bang' Fix Puts Voyager Across the 'One Light-Day' Mark Universe Today · 6 Nov 2026 Flashback to 1977. Jimmy Carter was U.S. president, Star Wars was a box office hit, and the two Voyager spacecraft departed on an historic Grand Tour of the solar system. Now, teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ar...
  • Caltech Names Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as NASA JPL Deputy NASA · 29 Oct 2026 Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The emeritus astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain begin...
  • NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration NASA · 21 Oct 2026 Interstellar probes. Lunar drones. Helicopters on Mars. When a group of Caltech graduate students and enthusiasts began conducting rocket-propulsion tests in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco on Oct. 31, 1936, they had no idea that...
  • Tracks Along the Longest Drive on Another World NASA · 21 Oct 2026 Written by Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Oct. 12, 2026 Since the last blog update, Perseverance has achieved a major milestone on Mars. On Sol 2006 (Oct. 11, 2026)...
  • NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team NASA · 13 Oct 2026 Description Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover dista...
  • NASA JPL Testing Readies Voyager Technologies Lander for Moon Mission NASA · 13 Oct 2026 A commercial lander that will be at the forefront of NASA’s efforts to establish a Moon Base, humanity’s first lunar outpost, has passed a series of critical tests at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern Ca...
  • Ribbon-Cutting Event for NASA Deep Space Network’s Deep Space Station 23 NASA · 30 Aug 2026 Description Leadership from NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) stand in front of the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone...
  • Antenna Testing for NASA’s SkyFall Mission NASA · 6 Aug 2026 Description SkyFall ground-penetrating radar engineer Maya Román connects a coaxial cable to a test antenna in the Environmental Test Lab’s electromagnetic interference testing chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4961-4967: Approaching a Break in the Rock Record? NASA · 31 Jul 2026 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Earth planning date: Friday, July 24, 2026 Curiosity spent the week continuing to climb her way up throu...
  • PRAXIS: Planetary Rings Autonomous EXploration with In-situ Sampling NASA · 21 Jul 2026 Marco QuadrelliNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Humanity has never touched the particles of a planetary ring, but if we were able to get close enough and sample them, it will transform understanding of ring structure and o...
  • Our First View of the Surface of Mars NASA · 20 Jul 2026 “Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thi...
  • NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet NASA · 16 Jul 2026 New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its motion through space and using powerful observ...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the Fourth of July NASA · 14 Jul 2026 Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 Curiosity spent the week leading up to the Fourth of July holiday...
  • NASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea Ice NASA · 9 Jul 2026 This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will help measure how quickly Arctic sea ice is disappearing. And while that instrument won’t launch f...
  • Loft Orbital to test AI models on spacecraft for Earth observation SpaceNews · 23 Jun 2026 Loft Orbital is working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test the use of artificial intelligence on spacecraft to improve Earth science monitoring.
  • Desert Field Test With NASA Advanced Rover Prototype NASA · 18 Jun 2026 Description A prototype four-wheel rover developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with advanced mobility and robotic autonomy capabilities trundled across the Colorado Desert near Plaster City, California, during a...
  • Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11 NASA · 16 Jun 2026 Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an open-house event, Explore JPL. On Oct....
  • NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitation NASA · 10 Jun 2026 A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this new instrument simultaneously probes the...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4900-4907: Pasadena, We Have a Drill Sample! NASA · 28 May 2026 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Earth planning date: Friday, May 22, 2026 I spent this past weekend eagerly awaiting the downlink from...
  • NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management NASA · 22 May 2026 NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agency’s federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in Southern California at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to...
  • NASA Sends Mars Helicopter Blades Beyond Mach 1 NASA · 7 May 2026 Description Engineer Fernando Mier-Hicks inspects a test stand used to investigate the performance of next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blades at high speeds inside the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsio...
  • NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Are Moving Fast NASA · 7 May 2026 Description Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blade prior to supersonic speed testing in the 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in Nov...
  • NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1 NASA · 7 May 2026 The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Data from the tests, which...
  • NASA Fires Up Powerful Lithium-Fed Thruster for Trips to Mars NASA · 28 Apr 2026 A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4859-4866: One Small Crater and Thousands of Polygons NASA · 15 Apr 2026 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, April 10, 2026 Curiosity spent the past week driving towards a small crater, about 10 meters (32 feet)...
  • Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility NASA · 9 Apr 2026 Description Staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California watch the agency’s Artemis II mission unfold soon after launch on April 1, 2026, at the Space Flight Operations Facility, which operates the De...
  • The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal NASA · 9 Apr 2026 Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Network’s radio frequency antennas indicate signal acquisition from NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon on April 1, 2026, inside the Space Flight Operations Faci...
  • Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition NASA · 9 Apr 2026 Description Blanca Renteria, Artemis Deep Space Network (DSN) operations chief, monitors data at the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California shortly after Artemis II la...
  • Watching the Artemis II Launch From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility NASA · 9 Apr 2026 Description Staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California watch the launch of the agency’s Artemis II mission to the Moon on April 1, 2026, at the Space Flight Operations Facility, which operates the D...
  • JPL’s ‘Lucky Peanuts’ Before Artemis II Launch NASA · 9 Apr 2026 Description A container of “lucky peanuts” sits above workstations within the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shortly before the launch of the Artemis II mission to the Moon on April...
  • Supporting Artemis II From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility NASA · 9 Apr 2026 Description The Artemis II mission patch appears in the center screen of the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on April 1, 2026, shortly before the mission launch...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4838-4844: Wrapping Up the Boxwork Terrain NASA · 26 Mar 2026 Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, March 20, 2026 Curiosity has just concluded a very intense week of science obser...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4818-4824: Thinking Out of the Boxwork NASA · 3 Mar 2026 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 This week we had three planning sessions, exploring the eastern side of the boxwork un...
  • JPL 3D-Printed Part Springs Forward NASA · 26 Feb 2026 Description With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity for futu...
  • Inside Project Hail Mary NASA · 26 Feb 2026 NASA astronaut and deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with panelists and the audience at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 25, 2026. Actors Ryan Gosling and Sa...
  • Technology Originally Developed for Space Missions Now Integral to Everyday Life NASA · 24 Feb 2026 Groundbreaking “camera-on-a-chip” technology that was originally developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for use in space missions is currently employed in billions of devices like cell phones that are used d...
  • Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite NASA · 18 Feb 2026 By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Ball Aerospace...
  • Mars Global Localization Pinpoints Perseverance’s Location NASA · 18 Feb 2026 Description These images were part of the first successful use of a new technology called Mars Global Localization, developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Using its navigation cameras, NASA’s Perseverance capture...
  • NASA advances space based tracking of marine debris SpaceDaily · 31 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2026 Detergent bottles and other litter can travel thousands of miles across the ocean before washing up on remote islands like Kaho'olawe in Hawaii, highlighting how persistent plastic pollu...
  • NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars NASA · 30 Jan 2026 The team for the six-wheeled scientist used a vision-capable AI to create a safe route over the Red Planet’s surface without the input of human route planners. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drive...

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