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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]
Lieutenant General Larry D. James is a former senior officer in the United States Air Force and is currently a civilian NASA administrator. He is the deputy director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, [1] where he also acted as the interim director from August 21, 2021 to May 16, 2022. [2]
NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted. While most images produced by NASA (unless noted otherwise) are in the public domain works produced by NASA contractors are not automatically in the public domain. According to JPL Website, "the Jet Propulsion Lab is a NASA field center managed by the California Institute of Technology.
Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base long hidden under the ice in Greenland, thanks to a NASA research team's good luck.
A novel radar image taken during an April NASA flight reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base buried within the Greenland Ice Sheet.
ALTADENA, Calif. - Infrared images from Nasa flights over the Eaton Fire near Altadena, California show how close the fire came to hundreds of more structures, including NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
The Radar-C system was built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mission was a joint work of NASA with the German and Italian space agencies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Each of the week long mission scanned about 50 million square kilometers of the Earth's surface, (19.3 million square miles).
To meet these requirements, the MSFN used a combination of resources. A Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) system called "Unified S-band", or USB, was selected for Apollo communications, which allowed tracking, ranging, telemetry, and voice to all use the same S band transmitter. Near-Earth tracking was provided by upgrading the same networks used ...