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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory lays off another 5 percent of workforce

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reducing its workforce by 5 percent, or 325 employees, amid budget cuts and issues with its Mars Sample Return program.

Bloomberg on MSN · 1h

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Cuts Jobs Under Funding Challenges

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is laying off about 325 employees, or 5% of its workforce, as the California-based research and development center deals with funding challenges for the upcoming year.

Orange County Register · 25m

NASA’s JPL to cut 325 positions amid budget tightening

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, that it will lay off more than 300 employees—approximately 5% of its workforce—in an effort to align with budgetary constraints. In a memo sent to employees and posted on its website ...

Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event

USA TODAY on MSN · 6h

Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study.

The New York Times · 1d

Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

Science News · 1d

Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.

For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce

Barely nine months after the last cut, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will again reduce its workforce. On Wednesday, the ...

Space.com1h

Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

Nature3h

Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

Space on MSN2d

NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable scientists to detect the faint light ...

CBS News29d

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment. Wisconsin voters will vote whether to ...

The Debrief23h

New Clues from Voyager 2 Reveal Uranus May Be More Mysterious Than Originally Thought

“If Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetosphere at Uranus,” Dr ...

The Washington Post1y

NASA goes full throttle on Mars, but hits speed bumps on road to Venus

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, two big missions got snagged on workforce issues Scientists operate a copy of a Mars rover within the Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

CBS News19d

Skyscraper-sized asteroid and 4 others speed past Earth on the same day

Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But the remaining celestial objects on track to follow suit were set to make their appearances ...

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