名称 略名 JPL
英名 Jet Propulsion Laboratory
和名 ジェット推進研究所
住所 : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109
Tel : (818)354-4321
Fax :
Email : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/faq/
www : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
1. タイプ 米政府機関
2. 機関概要
Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL spacecraft have visited all known planets except Pluto (a Pluto mission is currently under study for the late 1990s). In addition to its work for NASA, JPL conducts tasks for a variety of other federal agencies.
JPL's main 72-hectare (177-acre) site is at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, California, 19 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Los Angeles. In addition, JPL manages the worldwide Deep Space Network, which communicates with spacecraft and conducts scientific investigations from its complexes in California's Mojave Desert near Goldstone; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia.
