Collaborate Disseminate
Started by graduate students from the California Institute of Technology in the late 1930s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was instrumental in the development of early rocket technology in the …read more Continue reading Classic Chat: Arko Takes Us Inside NASA’s Legendary JPL
Yesterday NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that their ventilator design has received Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration. This paves the way for the design to be manufactured for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
JPL, which is tightly partnered with the California Institute of …read more
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Join us on Wednesday, August 21st at noon Pacific for the Life at JPL Hack Chat with Arko!
There’s a reason why people use “rocket science” as a metaphor for things that are hard to do. Getting stuff from here to there when there is a billion miles away and
Rampant security-operations bungling allowed cyberattackers to infiltrate JPL’s network, which carries human mission data. Continue reading Feds: Cyberattack on NASA’s JPL Threatened Mission-Control Data
A new study from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that 14 billion tons of ice have almost entirely disappeared from Thwaites Glacier in the last three years. Continue reading NASA Discovered a ‘Disturbing’ Glacier Hole Two-Thirds the Size of Manhattan
NASA is famously risk-averse, taking cautious approaches because billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake and each failure receives far more political attention than their many successes. So while moving the final frontier outward requires adopting new ideas, those ideas must first prove themselves through a lengthy process of risk-reduction. Autodesk’s research into generative design algorithms has just taken a significant step on this long journey with a planetary lander concept.
It was built jointly with a research division of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the birthplace of many successful interplanetary space probes. This project got a foot in the door …read more
Continue reading Generative Design Algorithms Prepare For Space
As the planet warms, ice loss at the poles—especially in Greenland—is having an effect on polar motion. Continue reading Human-Driven Climate Change Is Literally Making Earth ‘Wobble’
A reservoir of liquid water may be hiding under the ice cap on the south pole of Mars. Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars
Opportunity has driven farther and lived longer than any interplanetary rover. But can it survive one of the most intense dust storms ever observed on Mars? Continue reading NASA’s Opportunity Rover Is Battling for Its Life in an Epic Martian Dust Storm
Putting NASA’s Cold Atom Lab in space will allow quantum states to last for far longer than on Earth, offering researchers unprecedented insight into the quantum realm. Continue reading NASA’s Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe