JPL

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (wikipedia)

JPL" redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation).

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and

NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California,United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena ^[1] on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena. JPL is managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of robotic planetary spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among its current projects are the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, theMars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to Ceres and Vesta, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility and Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator are designatedNational Historic Landmarks.