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  • OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management SpaceDaily · 5 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 OPERA the Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis project was created in 2021 at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory to supply federal agencies with satellite produ...
  • OPERA: Addressing Societal Needs with Satellite Data NASA · 23 Dec 2025 Introduction The Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis (OPERA) project represents a strategic initiative designed to address critical satellite data needs identified by federal agencies. Estab...
  • Perseverance rover cleared for long distance Mars exploration SpaceDaily · 18 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 After nearly five years operating inside Mars Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has logged almost 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving while engineers certify that its mobility har...
  • JPL puts Blue Ghost Mission 2 lunar stack through launch stress tests SpaceDaily · 17 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 As Firefly Aerospace plans its next lunar delivery, a full-scale engineering model of its Blue Ghost Mission 2 system has completed vibration and acoustic testing at NASA's Jet Propulsio...
  • NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2025 The center leverages AI along with JPL's unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions....
  • NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions NASA · 11 Dec 2025 The center leverages AI along with JPL’s unique infrastructure, unrivaled tools, and years of operations expertise to support industry partners developing future planetary surface missions. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborato...
  • Invention Challenge Brings Student Engineers to NASA JPL NASA · 6 Dec 2025 Now in its 26th year, the event brings teams of middle and high school students to the lab to compete with home-built contraptions. Teenagers wielding power tools and plywood demonstrated their engineering prowess at the...
  • Testing Drones for Mars in the Mojave Desert NASA · 5 Dec 2025 Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor a research drone in this September 2025 photo. This flight occurred in Dumont Dunes, an area of the Mojave Desert, as part of a larger test campaign to develop na...
  • NASA, Aerospace Corporation Study Sharpens Focus on Ammonia Emissions NASA · 20 Nov 2025 The pungent gas contributes to fine airborne particulate pollution, which endangers human health when inhaled and absorbed in the bloodstream. A recent study led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in South...
  • JPL Lays Off Another 550 Workers SpacePolicyOnline.com · 13 Oct 2025 The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is laying off another 550 workers beginning tomorrow. JPL Director David Gallagher said the move is due to an ongoing reorganization that began in July, not
  • More layoffs at JPL SpaceNews · 13 Oct 2025 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off 550 employees this week, the latest round of job cuts at the space science center.
  • A Beacon to Space NASA · 19 Sep 2025 In this infrared photograph taken on June 2, 2025, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon t...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4641-4648: Thinking Outside and Inside the ‘Boxwork’ NASA · 4 Sep 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning week: Aug. 25, 2025. This week Curiosity has been exploring the boxwork unit, investigating both...
  • Carbon Mapper and tracking super pollutants SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2025 In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Riley Duren, CEO of Carbon Mapper and veteran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4631-4633: Radiant Ridge Revolution NASA · 19 Aug 2025 Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 Today we uplinked a three-sol weekend plan with lots of exciting activities — to suppo...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4629-4630: Feeling Hollow NASA · 18 Aug 2025 Written by Elena Amador-French, Science Operations Coordinator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 Today’s team investigated the texture and chemistry of the bedrock within a...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins NASA · 6 Aug 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. Today was a very special day for Curiosity as the rover celebrated the start of a 14t...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4618-4619: The Boxwork Structures Continue to Call to Us NASA · 5 Aug 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. Now that we have reached August, our “landiversary” (anniversary of...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4607-4608: Deep Dip NASA · 23 Jul 2025 Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Monday, July 21, 2025 Curiosity continues our exploration of the fractured boxwork terrain on the slopes of Mount Sh...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4595-4596: Just Another Beautiful Day on Mars NASA · 15 Jul 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 In today’s plan, we have a little bit of everything. With it being winter still, we...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4589 – 4592: Setting up to explore Volcán Peña Blanca NASA · 7 Jul 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 3, 2025 The team was delighted this morning to learn that Wednesday’s drive had completed flawl...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4584 – 4585: Just a Small Bump NASA · 1 Jul 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 27, 2025 We weren’t able to unstow Curiosity’s robotic arm on Wednesday because of some potential...
  • Buoyant Rover for Under Ice Exploration NASA · 25 Jun 2025 Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, a technology that could one day explore oceans under the ice layers of planetary bodies. The prototype was teste...
  • Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the Skies NASA · 21 Jun 2025 Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 20, 2025 During the plan covering Sols 4575-4576, Curiosity continued our investigation of mysterious boxwo...
  • NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast NASA · 12 Jun 2025 Proof-of-concept results from the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County show how an instrument called EMIT could aid wastewater detection. An instrument built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to map minerals...
  • In Memoriam: Dr. Stanley Sander NASA · 5 Jun 2025 Dr. Stanley Sander dedicated more than five decades to atmospheric science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, beginning his JPL career as a graduate research assistant in 1971. A leading figure in atmospheric chemistry, S...
  • Sols 4554–4555: Let’s Try That One Again… NASA · 30 May 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 We came in early this morning and learned that part of Tuesday’s plan didn’t execute on Mar...
  • Summer Students Scan the Radio Skies with SunRISE NASA · 28 May 2025 Solar radio bursts, intense blasts of radio emission associated with solar flares, can wreak havoc on global navigation systems. Now, as part of the Ground Radio Lab campaign led by the University of Michigan and NASA’s...
  • Gravity Poppers: Hopping Probes for the Interior Mapping of Small Solar System Bodies NASA · 27 May 2025 Benjamin HockmanNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory The goal of this effort is to develop a robust and affordable mission architecture that enables the gravimetric density reconstruction of small body interiors to unprecedent...
  • Sols 4541–4542: Boxwork Structure, or Just “Box-Like” Structure? NASA · 19 May 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that...
  • Sols 4536-4538: Dusty Martian Magnets NASA · 14 May 2025 Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, May 9, 2025 I was on downlink today for SA-SPaH, our robotic arm team. We successfully completed a n...
  • Leshin to step down as JPL director SpaceNews · 7 May 2025 The director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is leaving after three years on the job and will be replaced by a longtime lab official.
  • Laurie Leshin Steps Down as JPL Director SpacePolicyOnline.com · 7 May 2025 Laurie Leshin is stepping down as the Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 1. Dave Gallagher, JPL’s Associate Director for Strategic Integration, will be her successor. Leshin’s three-year
  • NASA Statement on Appointment of New JPL Director NASA · 7 May 2025 The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro on the appointment of David Gallagher as director of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. NASA JPL announced Wednesd...
  • Dave Gallagher Named 11th Director of JPL as Laurie Leshin Steps Down NASA · 7 May 2025 Laurie Leshin has decided to step down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sunday, June 1. David Gallagher, who has been serving as the Lab’s associate director for Strategic Integration, has been selected...
  • Sols 4522-4524: Up on the Roof NASA · 30 Apr 2025 Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, April 25, 2025 On Sols 4520 and 4521, Curiosity was supposed to study layered rocks in its workspace, then drive...
  • New York Stock Exchange Welcomes NASA’s SPHEREx Team NASA · 24 Apr 2025 Members of NASA’s recently launched SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission team participated in the New York Stock Exchange’s closing bell ceremony i...
  • All Hands for Artemis III NASA · 24 Apr 2025 A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing inside a one-of-a-kind chamber called CITADEL (Cryogenic Ice Testing, Acquisition Develo...
  • Sols 4509-4510: A weekend of long drives NASA · 16 Apr 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, April 11, 2025 Curiosity is continuing to book it to the potential boxwork structures. The rover drove over...
  • NASA Aims to Fly First Quantum Sensor for Gravity Measurements NASA · 15 Apr 2025 Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, private companies, and academic institutions are developing the first space-based quantum sensor for measuring gravity. Supported by NASA’s Earth...

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