Founded by Caltech researchers in the 1930s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been managed by Caltech for NASA since our nation’s civilian space agency was established in 1958.
The Lab is a leader in robotic space exploration that sends rovers to Mars, probes to the far reaches of the solar system, and satellites into orbit. In addition to its active space missions, JPL's research and technology development programs advance our understanding of Earth and beyond. Its spacecraft have flown to every planet in the solar system, the Sun, and into interstellar space.
As an actively integrated and interconnected community of innovators, problem solvers, and practitioners, Caltech and JPL together offer NASA an extended array of capabilities integrated across all levels of science and engineering. Together, they also provide the technical and administrative capacity to help NASA deliver projects and programs with an extraordinary potential to expand U.S. technological leadership and forever shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Learn more at jpl.nasa.gov.