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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending telework policy for nearly 5,500 employees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has told more than 5,500 hybrid and telework employees that they must return to on-site work ...
NASA Satellites Capture ‘River Tsunamis’ Surging Hundreds of Miles Inland
That’s according to researchers from Virginia Tech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who measured three large flood ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in Time
Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...
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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...
NASA 'cleanrooms' found crawling with 26 new bacterial species
A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.
Tough microbes found in NASA cleanrooms hold clues to space survival and biotech
A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia has ...
Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned ...
Gravity study shows why the moon's two sides look so different
An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why ...