Caltech created the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1936 and has managed it for NASA since the agency was established in 1958.
JPL is NASA’s center of excellence for robotics and deep space exploration. The federally funded research and development center helped launch America’s first satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958. Since then, JPL has managed such historic missions as Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, the Mars Exploration Rover program, the Perseverance Mars rover, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, Europa Clipper, and many more.
As a community of innovators, problem solvers, and practitioners, Caltech's workforce at JPL brings an extended array of science and engineering capabilities to NASA’s most ambitious priorities. Caltech JPL provides the technical and administrative capacity to help NASA deliver projects and programs with an extraordinary potential to expand US technological leadership and shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Learn more at jpl.nasa.gov.