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February 26, 2013 NASA Announces New CubeSat Space Mission CandidatesNASA has selected 24 small satellites, including three from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to fly as payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. |
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January 9, 2013 JPL to Host High-Tech Small Business ConferenceNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will host the High-Tech Conference for Small Business on March 5 and March 7 at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. |
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July 23, 2012 President Obama Honors NASA Scientists and EngineersPresident Obama has named six NASA individuals, including one from JPL, as recipients of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). |
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July 17, 2012 Researchers Develop New Amp to Study the UniverseResearchers at JPL and Caltech have developed an instrument for exploring the cosmos and the quantum world. |
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June 8, 2012 NASA Tests Future Mars Landing TechnologyFor the first time in decades, NASA is reinventing the type of parachutes being used to land on Mars. |
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April 10, 2012 NASA to Fly Atomic Clock to Improve Space NavigationNASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock will improve the way we conduct deep-space navigation by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and navigation data in real time. |
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March 15, 2012 Student-designed Robots Take on March MadnessSixty-six high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition. |
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February 23, 2012 NASA Pinning Down Where 'Here' is Better Than EverNASA is helping lead a global effort to upgrade systems used to determine a terrestrial reference frame for Earth and improve the accuracy of Earth observations from space. |
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February 14, 2012 JPL and Caltech CubeSat Proposals Move ForwardNASA selects 33 small satellites - including two from JPL in partnership with Caltech - to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014. |
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February 13, 2012 Advanced Communications Testbed for Space StationAn orbiting laboratory will soon provide new and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate. |
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December 9, 2011 Student Inventors Kick it Into High GearTwenty-three student teams used devices they built to kick a football into the can at the annual Invention Challenge, held at JPL Friday. |
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November 17, 2011 NASA Develops New Game-Changing TechnologyNASA'S turning up the heat and weaving a path toward future exploration with development of new game-changing technologies. |
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August 22, 2011 NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight DemonstrationNASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion capabilities. |
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July 25, 2011 NASA and Chevron Partner to Benefit the Energy IndustryNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Chevron Corporation in San Ramon, Calif., have announced a partnership to develop a range of advanced technologies that can be used in harsh environments, both on Earth and in space. |
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May 26, 2011 JPL-Developed Clean Energy Technology Moves ForwardA clean, efficient technology to generate grid-independent electricity from methanol, developed by a JPL team in partnership with USC, has been licensed to a private company. |
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April 26, 2011 NASA Technology Looks Inside Japan's Nuclear ReactorThe seeds from JPL rover technology are being used to examine buildings inside Japan's damaged nuclear plant. |
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March 28, 2011 Future Engineers Unite at Robotics CompetitionMultiple student teams from across California, and one team from Chile, participated in the 20th annual Los Angeles regional FIRST competition this past weekend. |
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March 16, 2011 Students Compete in Lego Robotics Challenge at JPLStudents from across Southern California participated in a Lego robotics challenge at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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March 3, 2011 National Inventors Hall of Fame Taps Former JPL EngineerThe National Inventors Hall of Fame is honoring a former JPL physicist/engineer for a sensor chip used in cell phone and other digital cameras, and medical imaging. |
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January 4, 2011 Developers Support JPL-Led Software ArchitectureA JPL-developed software architecture has been selected by the Apache Software Foundation to become a Top Level Project. |
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November 22, 2010 NASA Funds High School Student Robotics ProgramNASA is providing up to $20 million over the next five years to support a national program to inspire students through the FIRST Robotics program. |
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November 1, 2010 Major Surgery Complete for Deep Space Network AntennaThe seven-month upgrade to the historic "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has been completed. |
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October 27, 2010 JPL-Mentored Student Robotics Team Meets The PresidentAn all-female student robotics team, led by JPL scientists and engineers, is recognized by President Obama for winning the prestigious FIRST Tech Challenge Inspire award. |
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March 4, 2010 Robot Vs. Robot: Live in Washington and Across the NationNASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6. |
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February 25, 2010 NASA Breaks Ground on New Deep Space Network AntennasNASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications. |
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December 11, 2009 Local High School Wins Invention ChallengeCrescenta Valley High School, located several miles from JPL, picked up top honors at the annual Invention Challenge, held today at JPL. |
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December 7, 2009 Watch Live as Kids Test Their Inventions in Annual ChallengeTune in to see middle- and high-school teams showcase their inventions -- cardboard bridges capable of carrying up to 235 pounds (107 kilograms) -- in this year's Invention Challenge hosted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. |
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October 27, 2009 Robot Armada Might Scale New WorldsAn armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes. |
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October 19, 2009 JPL Develops High-Speed Test to Improve Pathogen DecontaminationA chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft. |
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September 10, 2009 Electronic Nose to Return from Space StationSniffing out any potential contaminants on the International Space Station where it was stationed for the last six months, the JPL-built electronic nose, or ENose, is homeward bound. |
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August 13, 2009 Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial MusclesResearch with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips. |
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July 22, 2009 Technology to Treat Blindness Earns AwardWolfgang Fink, senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is part of a Department of Energy-funded consortium that has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 awards for developing an artificial retina. |
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May 28, 2009 Honey, I Shrunk the ChipsJPL is home to the Microdevices Lab, a world-class facility where spacecraft chips are shrunk in size while growing in capability. |
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March 25, 2009 Researchers Pump Up Artificial MusclesEngineers from JPL and around the world are exploring the field of artificial muscles to invent "smart" devices that can grab and move objects. |
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March 16, 2009 Lunacy Rules at First Robotics CompetitionSixty-one teams from Southern California, Arizona, Brazil and Chile faced off in the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition on March 13 and 14. |
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March 12, 2009 The Robotic 'Right Stuff'Watch students compete using LEGO® robots against the clock in a competition at JPL. |
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January 29, 2009 JPL to Host High-Tech Conference for Small BusinessNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 21st Annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3 and 4, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel. |
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November 19, 2008 NASA Plans Test of 'Electronic Nose' on International Space StationNASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air. |
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November 6, 2008 NASA Science Showcased at Supercomputing ConferenceNASA will highlight some inspiring science and engineering achievements at an international conference in Austin, Texas, Nov. 15-21. The conference includes research from JPL and five other NASA field centers. |
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July 22, 2008 NASA's JPL, Ames Win 2007 NASA Software of Year AwardNASA has selected JPL as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system. |
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July 11, 2008 New Nano-Device to See Invisible LightJPL physicist Boris S. Karasik co-leads a research team that will help astronomers see invisible light. |
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March 13, 2008 JPL Technologies Chosen for Space Technology Hall of FamePASADENA, CALIF. -- Two technologies developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been selected for the Space Foundation's 2008 Space Technology Hall of Fame. |
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January 16, 2008 JPL Nanotubes Help Advance Brain Tumor ResearchPASADENA, Calif.- The potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors is being explored through a partnership between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and City of Hope, a leading cancer research and treatment center in Duarte, Calif. |
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November 30, 2007 Students Hit High Note in JPL Invention ChallengeJPL held its 10th annual Invention Challenge, an engineering and science contest for students and JPL employees, on Friday, Nov. 30. |
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October 31, 2007 NASA Selects Partnerships to Advance Key TechnologiesJPL will help advance key technologies to meet critical needs for NASA's mission, through several newly-announced partnerships selected by NASA. |
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June 21, 2007 Test Drive in Enlarged Mars YardA mobility-testing prototype for the rover that NASA will launch to Mars in 2009 climbs over a rock during a June 19, 2007, event to mark the opening of a newly expanded Mars Yard at JPL. |
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June 6, 2007 NASA Technology Helps Detect and Treat Heart Disease and StrokesNASA space technology is helping doctors diagnose and monitor treatments for hardening of the arteries in its early stages, before it causes heart attacks and strokes. |
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May 29, 2007 Future Mission to MarsThe 2009 Mars Science Laboratory, the mammoth grandchild of the 1997 Sojourner rover, is less than one year from the assembly, test and launch operations phase. |
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March 19, 2007 Sally Ride Science Festival for Girls Returns to CaltechSally Ride, America's first woman in space, is presenting the Sally Ride Science Festival, held in association with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, March 24, on the Caltech campus. |
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March 13, 2007 Students Rack Up Wins at Local Robotics CompetitionA high school robotics team sponsored by JPL was one of three teams capturing top honors at this year's Los Angeles regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition. |
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March 10, 2007 Student-Built Robots 'Rack 'N' Roll'High school teams from around California are competing this weekend in a Los Angeles regional robotics competition. This year's robotic challenge, to hang tubes on tall racks. |
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February 23, 2007 Celebrating Black History Month: An Information TechnologistAs JPL's first Associate Chief Information Officer, Dr. Magalene Powell-Meeks is responsible for making sure all of the lab's information technology needs are met. |
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January 8, 2007 JPL to Hold High-Tech Conference for Small BusinessNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 19th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on March 6 and 7, at the Radisson Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. |
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October 20, 2006 JPL Innovation HonoredJPL has been honored for a research and development innovation -- an untethered, self-powered robotic system to visually inspect gas pipelines. |
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September 15, 2006 JPL Rover Stretches Its LegsJPL engineers test Athlete, an All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer vehicle, in the Arizona desert. The robotic vehicle is capable of "walking" over extremely rough or steep terrain. |
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July 19, 2006 JPL and Partners Study Device to Help Spinal Cord InjuriesTechnology developed to help build better batteries for space missions is also being used to create a device that might one day help people living with spinal cord injuries. |
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May 11, 2006 Limber Robot Might Hitchhike to SpaceLemurs, those wide-eyed, active, monkey-like animals running around the island in the movie "Madagascar," are known for their ability to leap. A robotic lemur being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory moves more slowly, but might someday take its own giant leap - by going into space with astronauts. |
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April 7, 2006 Robotics Technology HonoredA robot using technology developed at JPL was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. The robot's twin at JPL is called an urban robot, or Urbie. |
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March 28, 2006 Students Win Robotics Basketball TournamentIt may not be the final four, but it's definitely an exciting time for some Southern California high school students who won a regional game of robotics basketball. |
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March 22, 2006 Space Technology 5 LaunchesA Pegasus rocket carrying three Space Technology 5 micro-satellites successfully dropped from its carrier jet. All three satellites are now orbiting Earth. The mission, part of the New Milllennium Program, will test and validate new technologies for future science missions. JPL manages the New Millennium Program for NASA. |
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March 21, 2006 JPL Performs First Two-Antenna Uplink ExperimentFor the first time ever, NASA's Deep Space Network has used a pair of smaller antennas to successfully send two simultaneous signals to a spacecraft in deep space that were combined at the spacecraft to yield greater signal power. |
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November 23, 2005 NASA Awards Contract for New Millennium MissionThe next satellite in NASA's New Millennium Program will be designed, developed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va. |
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September 14, 2005 JPL Team Honored With NASA's Software of the Year AwardSoftware developed by a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been selected to receive NASA's Software of the Year Award. |
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August 17, 2005 Technology of Tomorrow: Space Exploration Technology Spin-OffsThe next time you pick up a cordless tool or look up at a satellite dish, will you think of NASA? |
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July 13, 2005 Software Learns to Recognize Spring ThawSpring thaw in the Northern Hemisphere was monitored by a new set of eyes this year -- an Earth-orbiting NASA spacecraft carrying a new version of software trained to recognize and distinguish snow, ice, and water from space. |
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July 8, 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Solar Cars!High school students from across the country and Mexico are on a 1,600-mile race in hand-built, solar-powered cars. |
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June 24, 2005 Whirling Atoms Dance Into Physics TextbooksNASA-funded researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., have created a new form of superfluid matter. |
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February 28, 2005 Artificial Muscles Get a Grip on Human HandSix years ago a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., issued a unique challenge: build a robotic arm using artificial muscles that could arm wrestle a human. |
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February 10, 2005 Physicists Hear High-Tech Whistle While They WorkIt was music to the ears of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, when they forced liquid helium-4 through thousands of tiny holes and heard a whistling sound. |
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September 29, 2004 JPL Software Links Pediatric Doctors With New ResearchConjoined twins from Guatemala and the Philippines were recently separated after marathon surgeries in the United States, since their small communities lacked the quality medical care for the delicate procedure. |
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September 2, 2004 JPL Engineer Selected as Young InnovatorDr. Ayanna Howard, an electrical engineer at JPL, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's annual engineering symposium. |
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August 12, 2004 Mars Software Honored by NASANASA has selected a data visualization and simulation software package used by Mars rovers and landers, and a software package that can be used in aerospace and industrial flow fluid applications, as the "best of the best" software developed by the agency this year. |
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July 15, 2004 NASA Infrared Camera Helps Surgeons Map Brain TumorsUsing an infrared video camera developed by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., surgeons are testing thermal imaging and image processing to see if they can create useful maps of brain tumors. |
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June 25, 2004 New Software on NASA Spacecraft Monitors Active VolcanoSoftware on a NASA spacecraft recently made a scientific observation on its own without human interaction. |
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April 26, 2004 Black Magic or a Bag of Tricks?In his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Optics Engineer Larry Scherr sits before a buzzing computer, sketching geometrical shapes on a sheet of graph paper. |
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April 16, 2004 Virtual Visit: Dishes in the DesertGet a little closer to space exploration -- and the Mojave Desert -- with our new virtual tour of NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif. Use your computer mouse to see 360-panoramic views of the huge dishes that serve as one of three vital communications links between spacecraft and the Earth-bound teams that command them. |
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April 5, 2004 NASA Radar Aids High-Tech DigsHistory can be hard to find. A forgotten letter molders in an attic. An ancient temple hides beneath jungle greenery. Even knowing that something is there doesn't necessarily make it easier to find - the classic needle in the haystack. |
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March 3, 2004 Tumbleweed Rover Goes on a Roll at South PoleA balloon-shaped robot explorer that one day could search for evidence that water existed on other planets has survived some of the most trying conditions on planet Earth during a 70-kilometer (40-mile), wind-driven trek across Antarctica. |
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February 23, 2004 How to Make Your Own Eye-Popping 3-D PicturesSince settling in on the red planet, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity have sent back a number of 3-D postcards to countless fans outfitted in red- and blue-tinted spectacles. |
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October 28, 2003 People Are Robots, Too. AlmostPopular culture has long pondered the question, "If it looks like a human, walks like a human and talks like a human, is it human?" So far the answer has been no. Robots can't cry, bleed or feel like humans, and that's part of what makes them different. |
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October 23, 2003 NASA Scientist Dives into Perfect Space StormNewly uncovered scientific data of recorded history's most massive space storm is helping a NASA scientist investigate its intensity and the probability that what occurred on Earth and in the heavens almost a century-and-a-half ago could happen again. |
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August 21, 2003 Dr. Ayanna Howard, Robotics EngineerIn this video profile, Dr. Ayanna Howard takes us to JPL's Mars Yard and more as she describes how engineers design and test future rovers for Mars. |
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July 14, 2003 Art Meets AerogelThe Louvre….the Vatican Museums….JPL? There is no doubt that the heavens and the exploration of space have inspired beautiful art. |
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July 11, 2003 Meet the Humans Behind the RobotsFrom investigating abandoned buildings to charting the hazardous terrain of Mars, engineers at JPL design robots able to confront risky environments on Earth and elsewhere in the universe. |
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March 31, 2003 Robots Stack Their Way to Victory in NASA-Sponsored CompetitionComplete with alliances and the thrill of knocking out your opponents, this competition is a little like the "Survivor" reality TV show. |
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February 24, 2003 Flying with Nature's Own FuelHundreds of years ago, early discoverers used the Sun as a compass. Turns out the light of the Sun can do more than just guide us; it can actually propel us farther and faster into the vast realm of space than we've ever been able to go. |
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December 19, 2002 Alberto Behar, JPL EngineerIn this video profile 'First Person,' JPL engineer Alberto Behar tests robotic technologies in the remote ice fields of Antarctica. |
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December 18, 2002 The Brains Behind the BotThis is not the kind of bug you want to squash. The new Spiderbot is the leggy brainchild of JPL's Mobility Systems Concept Development section, including two ambitious engineering students and one recent graduate. Gabe Sibley, Jonathan Wall and Michael Poole spent their summer vacation building and testing this robotic hexapod. |
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October 21, 2002 Art Chmielewski, Project ManagerIn this video profile 'First Person,' Art Chmielewski, project manager for New Millennium project ST6, discusses artificial intelligence and new technologies for NASA spacecraft. |
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September 30, 2002 When Not Seeing Is BelievingA revolutionary portable infrared video camera developed by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may open new vistas for doctors, pilots, environmental scientists and law enforcement. |
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September 3, 2002 Ion Engine to Open Up the Solar SystemThis little engine that could has more than made up for its diminutive size, proving that sometimes less is more -- particularly in space. It was the first non-chemical propulsion system to be used as the primary means of propelling a NASA spacecraft. |
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July 15, 2002 Sniffing Out TroubleThe importance of the sense of smell is not always as obvious as the nose on one's face. Despite the fact that there were seven noses aboard the space shuttle Discovery four years ago in the form of the human crew, the E-Nose had the ability to sniff out what they could not. |
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July 8, 2002 New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary CommunicationsConstruction workers erecting steel components atop a new concrete chamber near Madrid, Spain, this summer are helping NASA study Mars and comets. |
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June 24, 2002 JPL High Bays Give a Whole New Meaning to 'Clean Your Room'Any fan of television medical dramas knows that operating rooms must be sterile. You don't have to be a doctor, or even play one on TV, to scrub in before entering the cleanroom high bays at JPL. |
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June 3, 2002 Scientists 'Muscle' Sci-Fi into RealityScientists and engineers worldwide are focusing on biologically inspired technologies like artificial muscles and intelligence. In the future, insect-like robots might relieve their manufacturer's burden by packing themselves for shipping. |
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May 6, 2002 Wiring the Fashion Trend of the FutureJPL engineer Ann Devereaux is hard at work developing the Wearable Augmented Reality Prototype (Warp), a personal communication device. The voice- activated wearable computer allows easy, real-time access to voice communication, pictures, video, people and technical reports. |
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March 25, 2002 How to Land Softly on a Hard PlanetJust one of the many problems in landing on another planet, after it's been determined where to land and the method to get there, is landing safely. |
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February 11, 2002 Ideas that GelThe most obvious ideas are not always clear. Take aerogel for instance, a transparent, smoky blue substance that's been especially manufactured to bring home a piece of a comet, among other things. |
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December 21, 2001 Researchers Toy with New Rover DesignsThe next generation of Mars rovers may not be what you'd expect. Someday, a giant "beach ball" rover may roll along the surface of the planet and make a flurry of new discoveries. Other rovers may literally hang on the edge to give scientists a good look at the planet's nooks and crannies. |
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November 19, 2001 Machinists to the StarsIt's the middle of the night at JPL, and the usual dozens of deer are on their nightly foraging rounds across the campus. |
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October 29, 2001 Robots Put Students 'First'As the buzzer sounds, the robots sprint toward the center of the arena. Using metallic "arms" and other clever gadgets not seen on humans, the remotely controlled machines manage to grab a giant beach ball and attempt to dunk it into an oversized basket. |
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October 15, 2001 Bee Vision: The Latest Buzz in Space ExplorationFortunately, many flowers help these hard-working insects by showing them patterns that direct them to food sources. These patterns, however, are only visible in the ultraviolet range, something that many insects can detect. |
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September 6, 2001 Drilling into the FutureImagine a drill that penetrates granite using only the power of a flashlight battery. Then imagine sending that energy-efficient drill to another planet to explore beneath the surface. |
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August 10, 2001 Exploring Mars: Blowing in the Wind?Researchers exploring different methods to deliver scientific instruments to various Martian locales are studying the potential for a giant, lightweight, two-story tall beach ball. |
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June 26, 2001 Urbie, the Urban RobotRovers tend to be associated with space exploration. In 1997, the Sojourner rover successfully studied the surface of Mars. Today, engineers are designing the twin rovers that will go to Mars in 2003. |
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June 11, 2001 The Aerover Blimp: The Ultimate All-terrain VehicleEngineers are constantly planning for the future. In space exploration, this means coming up with innovative and energy-efficient ways to study harsh but scientifically interesting environments that are millions or billions of miles from Earth. |
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