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Eco Company - 2009 Butterflies to NASA's JPL 2-1 was released on: USA: 13 September 2010 USA: 13 September 2010
The rover was built by the NASA Telerobotics Program. The mission was controlled by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory didn't "join" NASA - from its beginnings in 1936, it has always been a federally funded R&D center. It was initially run by the Army, and after NASA was created, it was transferred to it and became one of its field centers (others are Goddard, Marshall, Langley, etc.). The confusion often comes from the public misconception that JPL is a part of CalTech, which it isn't. It is a government center staffed by CalTech employees and private contractors. CalTech manages and operates JPL under contract from NASA, as many similar centers are run. NASA is actually a very small agency - most of those who actually operate centers and perform work are government employees from other agencies or contractors.
These belong to nasa and will be catogorized as classified until scanned for abnormalities by such places as jpl and the defense dept
The Phoenix Mars lander is on the ground now! Use the link to the JPL/NASA posting on this mission. It is updated frequently.
At 20:45 on September 8 2012 the NASA-JPL website had 159,581,848 km as the distance to the Spitzer telescope.Six minutes later they show 159,582,120 km as the distance.
No. NASA is not in the planet discovering business. That is done by others. NASA does send up stuff like the Hubble etc. but I think it is JPL that actually runs it. Oh, and there has never been anything to suggest that life has been discovered out there, by *anyone*.
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The cast of Star Wars Tech - 2007 includes: Todd Barber as Himself - Propulsion Engineer, NASA-JPL
R. G Downing has written: 'Results of the 1984 NASA/JPL balloon flight solar cell calibration program' -- subject(s): Solar batteries
JPL stands for Jet Propulsion Laboratory and it is located in La Canada, a suburb of Los Angeles, CA.
Yes, communications from both of the spacecraft are still received through the Deep Space Network, despite Voyager 1 being the furthest ever man-made object from earth.