Lecture Series

General Information

JPL’s Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series, presented by the Communications and Education Directorate, aims to bring the excitement of JPL’s missions, instruments and other technologies to an audience of both JPL employees and the general public. The von Kármán series is a completely virtual event, taking place once per month, while being recorded for you to enjoy at any time.

Lecture Series

Fixing Voyager: How NASA Restored Communications with Voyager 1 from Across the Solar System

Join us for a live talk to learn how the Voyager team at JPL – both current and retired – used an impressive combination of modern and past resources, detective work, trial and error, and decades of experience to solve the problem.

Lecture Information

2024 Lectures

January 25 - Spirit Knocked, Opportunity Rocked: 20 Years of Rovers on Mars
February 22 - SPHEREx: Zooming Out to See the Big Picture
March 21 - The Mavericks of INGENUITY: How NASA Extended the Mission of the First Mars Helicopter
April 18 - Seeing Earth’s Coastlines: SWOT Satellite Provides Higher-Resolution Data than Ever
May 16 - Shake & Bake: How Spacecraft Are Tested to Handle the Harsh Environment of Space
June 20 - NASA in Your Home: How Space-Based Technology Improves Our Daily Lives
July 18 - How NASA’s Team of Autonomous Mini Rovers Will Explore the Moon
August 15 - Sulfur Crystals on Mars: Curiosity’s Happy Accident
September 19 - Europa and Beyond: A Deep Dive into Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System
October 2024 - Lasers in Space! How NASA’s New Technology Could Revolutionize Deep Space Comms
November 2024 - Fixing Voyager: How NASA Restored Communications with Voyager 1 from Across the Solar System

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