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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.
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 ...
Launch of Mariner 1 in 1962. The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets.Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the inner Solar System – visiting the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time, and returning to Venus and Mars for ...
Starting in May 1960, under Parks' direction, JPL/NASA conducted the world's first spacecraft mission to another planet, the Mariner 2 mission to Venus in 1962; the Ranger 7, 8 and 9 missions in 1964 and 1965, which produced the first close-up photos of the Moon; and the Mariner 4 mission to Mars in 1965.
Fuk Li. Fuk K. Li (李復國; / f uː k / FOOK [1]) is the Director of the Mars Exploration Directorate [when?] at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.. Li's directorate is responsible for JPL's projects exploring Mars, including two orbiters (Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), two famous rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), the Phoenix stationary laboratory which landed near the north ...
Mars Exploration Program (MEP) is a long-term effort to explore the planet Mars, funded and led by NASA.Formed in 1993, MEP has made use of orbital spacecraft, landers, and Mars rovers to explore the possibilities of life on Mars, as well as the planet's climate and natural resources. [1]
In JPL's Deep Space Mission Architectures Group he was the lead systems engineer for the GRAIL step 1 Discovery proposal and the ST9 Aerocapture [9] Phase A study for the New Millennium Program. GRAIL went on to become a flight project in NASA's Discovery Program. In 2006, Oh joined the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) team.