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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. [1] Founded in 1936 by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researchers, the laboratory is now owned and sponsored by NASA and administered and managed by Caltech. [2] [3]
The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA's Deep Space Network is operated from this facility.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the upper Arroyo Seco and San Gabriel foothills, 2006. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is located on the eastern end of La Cañada Flintridge (the mailing address is Pasadena). It is the primary United States research and development center for the robotic exploration of the Solar System.
Messages are relayed to Voyager from mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, through the agency’s Deep Space Network. The system of radio antennas on Earth ...
The Deep Space Optical Communications team worked during the early morning hours of November 14 in the Psyche mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to ...
[10] JPL diagrams [11] state that at an altitude of 30,000 km (19,000 mi), a spacecraft is always in the field of view of one of the tracking stations. The International Telecommunication Union , which sets aside various frequency bands for deep space and near Earth use , defines "deep space" to start at a distance of 2 million km (1.2 million ...
The Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is a chamber for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions, including extreme cold, high radiation, and near-vacuum pressure. Built in 1961, it is located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, CA, was, together with ABMA, one of the agencies behind Explorer 1, America's first robotic satellite, and also together with ABMA one of the first agencies to become a part of NASA.