JPL

NASA’s JPL Lays Off Hundreds Amid Mars Budget Uncertainties

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Hundreds of employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be affected by budget constraints looming over the space agency for the current year, with Congress still behind on issuing the final budget for 2024 and its final decision regarding Mars Sample Return (MSR). ‘More People Need to Know About This History’: A Black Astronaut … Read more

It’ll Be a ‘Miracle’ to Recover Glitching Voyager 1 Probe, Says NASA’s JPL

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Humanity’s most distant spacecraft is glitching out—again—and engineers are having quite a difficult time solving the problem. Voyager 1, what are we going to do with you? Trump Went Through Twitter Withdrawal The issue is with the 46-year-old Voyager 1’s flight data system (FDS), one of its three onboard computers. The FDS collects data from … Read more