JPL's website from 1995
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
JPL's website from 1995
JPL's website from 1995
November 8, 2024 at 12:15 PM
JPL's website from 1995
JPL's website from 1995
April 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM
JPL's website from 1995
You know who drew an amazing Galactus? John Paul Leon, that’s who
February 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
You know who drew an amazing Galactus? John Paul Leon, that’s who
JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:
January 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:
I hadn't seen this before - back in 1981, almost a decade before it launched. JPL's animation showing the Galileo mission using the same CGI technology used for Voyager
December 12, 2024 at 1:16 AM
I hadn't seen this before - back in 1981, almost a decade before it launched. JPL's animation showing the Galileo mission using the same CGI technology used for Voyager
Keeping the Voyagers alive has become an extraordinary act of engineering care. Their power comes from the heat of decaying plutonium, and each spacecraft loses about four watts every year.
JPL's Suzanne Dodd and Kareem Badaruddin are helping make those choices. More: explorers.com/keeping-voya...
JPL's Suzanne Dodd and Kareem Badaruddin are helping make those choices. More: explorers.com/keeping-voya...
September 24, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Keeping the Voyagers alive has become an extraordinary act of engineering care. Their power comes from the heat of decaying plutonium, and each spacecraft loses about four watts every year.
JPL's Suzanne Dodd and Kareem Badaruddin are helping make those choices. More: explorers.com/keeping-voya...
JPL's Suzanne Dodd and Kareem Badaruddin are helping make those choices. More: explorers.com/keeping-voya...
Autumn Lui is helping direct one of JPL’s audacious ideas: MoonFall, a proposed mission using rocket powered drones to leap across the lunar South Pole, map future Artemis terrain, and search permanently shadowed craters for water ice.
explorers.com/autumn-lui @nationalacademies.org
explorers.com/autumn-lui @nationalacademies.org
September 24, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Autumn Lui is helping direct one of JPL’s audacious ideas: MoonFall, a proposed mission using rocket powered drones to leap across the lunar South Pole, map future Artemis terrain, and search permanently shadowed craters for water ice.
explorers.com/autumn-lui @nationalacademies.org
explorers.com/autumn-lui @nationalacademies.org
I co-discovered a near-Earth asteroid last night! Asteroid 2026 Q48 was first sighted by JPL’s automated sky survey, but my follow-up measurements from Stony Ridge Observatory confirmed this object, earning me co-discovery credit. This Apollo-type asteroid crosses Earth’s orbit.
#Astronomy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
#Astronomy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
August 20, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I co-discovered a near-Earth asteroid last night! Asteroid 2026 Q48 was first sighted by JPL’s automated sky survey, but my follow-up measurements from Stony Ridge Observatory confirmed this object, earning me co-discovery credit. This Apollo-type asteroid crosses Earth’s orbit.
#Astronomy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
#Astronomy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
Hanging out in Mission Control - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/mRcTc6
July 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Hanging out in Mission Control - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/mRcTc6
Hanging out in Mission Control - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/mRcTc6
August 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Hanging out in Mission Control - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/mRcTc6
A horrible before and after. I visited JPL while in college 10 years ago, it was an incredible experience, hope the entire campus is safe with the help of JPL's own fire department
January 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A horrible before and after. I visited JPL while in college 10 years ago, it was an incredible experience, hope the entire campus is safe with the help of JPL's own fire department
Survived this today. Tomorrow's a new day of work, helping our amazing team ensure the NASA JPL's Deep Space Network is working as it should.
Sad to see the space exploration side of #NASA at #JPL being hit yet again with cuts as crewed spaceflight programs have encountered budget overruns and delays.
Work that @NASAJPL scientists have, and continue to do, has provided great returns to humanity’s collective knowledge.
Work that @NASAJPL scientists have, and continue to do, has provided great returns to humanity’s collective knowledge.
For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce
“If we hold strong together, we will come through this.”…
arstechnica.com
November 14, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Survived this today. Tomorrow's a new day of work, helping our amazing team ensure the NASA JPL's Deep Space Network is working as it should.
Timelapse of JPL's Table Mountain Facility Beaming Laser Beacon to Psyche
The spacecraft was about 230 million kilometers from Earth at the time.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26...
The spacecraft was about 230 million kilometers from Earth at the time.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26...
September 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Timelapse of JPL's Table Mountain Facility Beaming Laser Beacon to Psyche
The spacecraft was about 230 million kilometers from Earth at the time.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26...
The spacecraft was about 230 million kilometers from Earth at the time.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26...
"The layoffs will affect employees across JPL's technical, business and support areas as part of a reorganization that began in July."
I know I had a few followers at JPL on Twitter, I don't know if they switched to Bsky, but: we're thinking of you and your colleagues, my friends. 💪❤️
I know I had a few followers at JPL on Twitter, I don't know if they switched to Bsky, but: we're thinking of you and your colleagues, my friends. 💪❤️
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"The layoffs will affect employees across JPL's technical, business and support areas as part of a reorganization that began in July."
I know I had a few followers at JPL on Twitter, I don't know if they switched to Bsky, but: we're thinking of you and your colleagues, my friends. 💪❤️
I know I had a few followers at JPL on Twitter, I don't know if they switched to Bsky, but: we're thinking of you and your colleagues, my friends. 💪❤️
NASA Will Compete JPL’s Management Contract
nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi... @NASA @NASAJPL
nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi... @NASA @NASAJPL
NASA Will Compete JPL's Management Contract
NASA Will Compete JPL Contract
nasawatch.com
May 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
NASA Will Compete JPL’s Management Contract
nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi... @NASA @NASAJPL
nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi... @NASA @NASAJPL
The Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...
September 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...
Me getting JPL’s request to take another picture of the rock I’ve already taken 50 pictures of over the last 3 sols
October 1, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Me getting JPL’s request to take another picture of the rock I’ve already taken 50 pictures of over the last 3 sols
NASA JPL's groundbreaking microspines are transforming our understanding of surface interactions. This innovation could change the game in various fields.
May 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
NASA JPL's groundbreaking microspines are transforming our understanding of surface interactions. This innovation could change the game in various fields.
On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity made history with the first powered flight on another planet.
Its “brain”? An open-source Linux kernel running JPL’s F′ framework on a smartphone processor.
Open source keeps redefining how far technology can take us.
go.nasa.gov/45BoJlD
📹NASA/JPL
#Linux35
Its “brain”? An open-source Linux kernel running JPL’s F′ framework on a smartphone processor.
Open source keeps redefining how far technology can take us.
go.nasa.gov/45BoJlD
📹NASA/JPL
#Linux35
August 24, 2026 at 2:54 PM
On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity made history with the first powered flight on another planet.
Its “brain”? An open-source Linux kernel running JPL’s F′ framework on a smartphone processor.
Open source keeps redefining how far technology can take us.
go.nasa.gov/45BoJlD
📹NASA/JPL
#Linux35
Its “brain”? An open-source Linux kernel running JPL’s F′ framework on a smartphone processor.
Open source keeps redefining how far technology can take us.
go.nasa.gov/45BoJlD
📹NASA/JPL
#Linux35
Fire has also threatened JPL’s physical location (so far the firefighting has kept it safe). And of course whole parts of the community are just gone—schools, businesses, community centers…
So I will be posting & reposting GFMs for impacted folks. This fire is going to have an outsized impact
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So I will be posting & reposting GFMs for impacted folks. This fire is going to have an outsized impact
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January 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Fire has also threatened JPL’s physical location (so far the firefighting has kept it safe). And of course whole parts of the community are just gone—schools, businesses, community centers…
So I will be posting & reposting GFMs for impacted folks. This fire is going to have an outsized impact
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So I will be posting & reposting GFMs for impacted folks. This fire is going to have an outsized impact
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