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Engineers at #NASA’s #JetPropulsionLab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
Recent testing at #JPL pushed rotors past the speed of sound without damaging them. The rotor tips reached a top speed of Mach 1.08 in a test chamber simulating Mars’ atmosphere. Engineers didn’t know for sure what would happen to the rotors, so they lined part of the chamber with sheet metal to shield it from damage if the blades broke apart during the supersonic experiment, according to NASA.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/engineers-at-nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-make-a-breakthrough-in-rotor-technology/

Europa Clipper Solar Array Stowage 🌑🪐

#Europa #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #JohnsHopkinsUniversityAppliedPhysicsLaboratory(APL) #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 9 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=9&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241017010409

NASA's SpaceX Europa Clipper Liftoff 🌑🚀🪐

#APL #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #JohnsHopkinsUniversityAppliedPhysicsLaboratory #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 6 new pictures from NASA (Image Library)

NASA's SpaceX Europa Clipper Liftoff 🌑🚀🪐

#APL #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #JohnsHopkinsUniversityAppliedPhysicsLaboratory #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 2 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=2&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241014184823

Europa Clipper Propellant Load Preparations 🌑🪐

#APL #ArtemisIII #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 11 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=11&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20240913010444

Europa Clipper Solar Array Wing Deployment (Second Wing) 🌑🪐

#AstrotechSpaceOperations #BlueOrigin #ESCAPADE #EscapeandPlasmaAccelerationandDynamicsExplorers #Europa #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab

⏩ 23 new pictures from NASA (Image Library)

Europa Clipper Solar Array Alignment and Install, Wing Deploymen 🌑🛰️🪐

#Europa #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #JohnsHopkinsUniversityAppliedPhysicsLaboratory(APL) #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 7 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=7&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20240821010844

Europa Clipper Solar Array Alignment, Installation and Integrati 🌑🛰️🪐

#Europa #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #JohnsHopkinsUniversityAppliedPhysicsLaboratory(APL) #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 10 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=10&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20240820010419

NASA’s Europa Clipper Solar Array Antenna Install 🌑🚀🛰️🪐

#ATLO #Airbus #Assembly #Europa #EuropaClipper #FalconHeavy #JPL #JetPropulsionLab

⏩ 14 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=14&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20240329175307

Europa Clipper Solar Wing Deployment 🌑🪐

#APL #Europa #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 12 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=12&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20240312224219

NASA’s Europa Clipper Solar Array Arrival at Kennedy Space Cen 🌑🚀🛰️🪐

#ATLO #Airbus #Assembly #Europa #EuropaClipper #FalconHeavy #JPL #JetPropulsionLab

⏩ 10 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=10&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20240223010418

Mass #layoffs at #JPL today, with employees notified via email after business hours last night (some of whom didn’t get the message until failing to badge in the next morning)… Very interesting 🤨

#jetpropulsionlab #space #science #nasa
#caltech #HRfail

Shannon Gregory Headshots 🚀

#ArizonaStateUniversity #CapeCanaveral #DSOC #DeepSpaceOpticalCommunications #FalconHeavy #Florida #JPL #JetPropulsionLab

⏩ 17 new pictures from NASA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=17&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20231019015248

Psyche Live Launch Coverage

#:NASA #ArizonaStateUniversity #DSOC #DeepSpaceOpticalCommunications #FalconHeavy #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #KSC

▶️ 1 new picture from NASA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psyche_Live_Launch_Coverage_%28KSC-20231016-PH-CSH02_0001%29.jpg

Psyche Live Launch Coverage 🚀

#ArizonaStateUniversity #DSOC #DeepSpaceOpticalCommunications #FalconHeavy #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 13 new pictures from NASA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=13&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20231014014943

Psyche Transport from Astrotech to LC 39A 🛰️

#ASU #ArizonaStateUniversity #Astrotech #DSOC #DeepSpaceOpticalCommunication #FalconHeavy #JPL #JetPropulsionLab

⏩ 2 new pictures from NASA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=2&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20231011014748

🚀🛰️ NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Mate to Payload Attach Fitting (PAF)

#ASU #ArizonaStateUniversity #Astrotech #DSOC #DeepSpaceOpticalCommunication #FalconHeavy #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 2 new pictures from NASA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=2&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20230923014328

NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network - Enlarge / NASA has three Deep Space Network stations in California, Spa... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1964191 #deepspacenetwork #jetpropulsionlab #space #nasa #dsn

Everything is coming together for launch of NASA’s mission to a metal asteroid - Enlarge / NASA's Psyche spacecraft is the centerpiece of a $1.23 billio... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960414 #jetpropulsionlab #psycheasteroid #space #nasa

NASA decides not to launch two already-built asteroid probes - Enlarge / An artist's illustration of NASA's two Janus spacecraft as th... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1953108 #jetpropulsionlab #planetaryscience #solarsystem #asteroids #science #psyche #space #janus #nasa #jpl

Astronomers reveal the most detailed map of the asteroid Psyche yet - Enlarge / Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1861297 #jetpropulsionlab #astrophysics #asteroids #astronomy #science #psyche #nasa

Ars takes a clean room tour of JPL’s asteroid-orbiting Psyche spacecraft - Enlarge / Artist's illustration of NASA's Psyche spacecraft, set to lau... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1847285 #jetpropulsionlab #spaceexploration #astrophysics #asteroids #astronomy #science #psyche

A chilling first: Physicists create exotic “fifth form of matter” on board the ISS - Enlarge / This sequence of false-color images shows the formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1684005 #internationalspacestation #boseeinsteincondensates #jetpropulsionlab #coldatomlab #science #physics #space #nasa