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“To put it really bluntly, JPL is our Mars center in NASA science,” said Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate. “They are the people who landed us on Mars ...
JPL and the Space Age was created in 2022 [2] to inform users about JPLs contributions and missions. JPL and the Space Age started airing on NASA TV and JPLs website. The first episode released for the franchise was The American Rocketeer, releasing in January of 2022. [3] The series later migrated to NASA+ in November 2023. [4]
Jennifer Harris Trosper is an American aerospace engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. During her 30-year career at JPL, Trosper has occupied crucial positions in engineering management pertaining to every spacecraft that has traversed the Martian surface.
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight.
A hiring freeze wasn't enough to avoid layoffs after NASA ordered cuts to the MSR mission. Some 530 employees and 40 contractors will lose their jobs. Budget cuts to Mars Sample Return mission ...
With a final 2024 budget for NASA in place, the space agency has directed JPL not to cut any more staff working on the Mars Sample Return mission.
Mars 1: Mars 1 (2MV-4 No.2) 1 November 1962 Soviet Union: Flyby Spacecraft failure Communications lost before first flyby: Molniya: 5 2MV-3 No.1: 2MV-3 No.1: 4 November 1962 Soviet Union: Lander Launch failure Never left LEO Molniya: 6 Mariner 3: Mariner 3: 5 November 1964: NASA United States: Flyby Launch failure Payload fairing failed to ...
The days are numbered for NASA's InSight lander on Mars. That also spells the end for ForeSight, its doppelganger at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As NASA's Mars InSight mission comes to an end ...