NASA's Iconic Jet Propulsion Laboratory Could Change Hands for the First Time

Caltech has led JPL to some of the most ambitious and successful missions in NASA's history, but the agency could be about to ...
ScienceAlert

NASA Is Testing Its Own Cutting-Edge AI Chip For Future Space Missions

As space exploration takes spacecraft and crews farther and farther from Earth, the need for systems that can operate with ...
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Shakeup at JPL? Control over iconic NASA center could change for 1st time in nearly 100 years

This is part of an even-larger "restructuring" at NASA.

Firefly Aerospace Wins $75 Million NASA JPL MoonFall Subcontract to Deliver Drones to the Moon’s South Pole

Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced it was awarded a $75 ...
Opinion

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Initiates Largest Change In 70 Years, Solicits Bids To Replace Caltech As Its Manager

A booming industry is proving that private enterprise can make serious strides in space, and JPL is looking to find cheaper ways to do what it's always done.
Inside Higher Ed

Caltech Must Bid to Operate NASA Lab for First Time in Nearly 100 Years

Caltech will compete to operate and manage the Jet Propulsion Lab, a federally funded research and development center it ...

NASA’s Next-Gen Processor Is 500 Times More Powerful Than Current Space Chips

NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing project began testing the next-generation processor in February, sending an email with the subject line “Hello Universe.” So far, the chip has shown ...
Aviation Week

Debrief: NASA To Seek Bids To Run JPL

NASA’s single largest contract—for the operations and management of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California—will be up for bids for the first time in the agency’s history. It is a ...

NASA Finds a “Goldilocks” Giant Planet Wrapped in Methane

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a rare alien world that sits in a cosmic “sweet spot” between scorching hot Jupiters and frozen gas giants like Saturn.