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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]
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.
In July 1961, NASA started the construction of the permanent facility, Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF). The facility was completed in October 1963 dedicated on May 14, 1964. In the initial setup of the SFOF, there were 31 consoles, 100 closed-circuit television cameras, and more than 200 television displays to support Ranger 6 to Ranger ...
NASA scientists found Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War military base, during a flight to map the Greenland Ice Sheet. ... a cryospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ...
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.
NASA has used or supported various observatories and telescopes, and an example of this is the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. In 2013 a NASA Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) Report recommended a Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) style organization to consolidate NASA's little used facilities. [3]
Infrared images from NASA flights over the Eaton Fire near Altadena in California show how close the fire came to hundreds of more structures, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before it ...
NASA also proceeded to absorb the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard, the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency under Wernher von Braun. This left NASA firmly as the United States' civil space lead and the Air Force as the military space lead.