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  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. [1] Founded in 1936 by Caltech researchers, the laboratory is now owned and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and administered and managed by the California Institute of Technology.

  3. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex - Wikipedia

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    Goldstone Observatory in 1963. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), commonly called the Goldstone Observatory, is a satellite ground station located in Fort Irwin [1] in the U.S. state of California. Operated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), its main purpose is to track and communicate with interplanetary space ...

  4. NASA facilities - Wikipedia

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    The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, CA, was, together with ABMA, one of the agencies behind Explorer 1, America's first robotic satellite, and also together with ABMA one of the first agencies to become a part of NASA.

  5. Table Mountain Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) is an astronomical observation facility operated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology). It is located in Big Pines, California, in the Angeles National Forest near Wrightwood, north-northeast of Los Angeles, California. [1][2] TMO is part of JPL's Table Mountain Facility (TMF).

  6. Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist on Voyager mission ...

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    Ed Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50 years and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died ...

  7. La Cañada Flintridge, California - Wikipedia

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    Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the upper Arroyo Seco and San Gabriel foothills, 2006. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is located on the eastern end of La Cañada Flintridge (the mailing address is Pasadena). It is the primary United States research and development center for the robotic exploration of the Solar System.

  8. Space Flight Operations Facility - Wikipedia

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    Designated NHL. October 3, 1985 [3] The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA's Deep Space Network is operated from this facility.

  9. Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex - Wikipedia

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    The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), in Spanish and officially Complejo de Comunicaciones de Espacio Profundo de Madrid, is a satellite ground station located in Robledo de Chavela, Spain, and operated by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA). [1] Part of the Deep Space Network (DSN) of NASA 's Jet Propulsion ...