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Loading contentThe Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a NASA federally funded research and development center in California that builds and operates robotic spacecraft.
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How NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
Voyager 1 is a NASA space probe launched in 1977 that explored Jupiter and Saturn and has since become the most distant human-made object, traveling in interstellar space.
Cassini–Huygens was a NASA–ESA–ASI mission launched in 1997 that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and delivered the Huygens probe to the surface of its moon Titan.
Mars Science Laboratory is the NASA mission that delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 to investigate the planet's climate and geology.
The first confirmed interstellar object, detected in October 2017 on its way out of the Solar System. Its strongly hyperbolic orbit (eccentricity about 1.2) showed it was never bound to the Sun. It displayed no visible coma, is highly elongated, and showed a slight non-gravitational acceleration — features that drew wide attention, though the scientific consensus is that it is a natural body.
The second confirmed interstellar object and the first that was unmistakably a comet, discovered in August 2019 by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov. Its eccentricity of about 3.4 made its interstellar origin certain. Unlike 1I/ʻOumuamua it showed an active dust coma and tail, letting astronomers study the chemistry of a comet formed around another star; it proved unusually rich in carbon monoxide.
The third confirmed interstellar object, discovered on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey in Chile. Its orbit is the most strongly hyperbolic of the three found so far, with an eccentricity of roughly 6, and it showed cometary activity as it passed through the inner Solar System in late 2025. Some physical parameters remain preliminary, but its interstellar origin is established by the trajectory.
NASA's sample-return mission that captured dust from the coma of comet Wild 2 and returned it to Earth in 2006, and later flew past Tempel 1 as Stardust-NExT.
NASA's ion-propulsion technology demonstrator that flew past comet Borrelly in 2001, returning detailed images of its nucleus.
NASA's mission that fired a 370-kg impactor into comet Tempel 1 in 2005 to excavate and study the material beneath a comet's surface.
The extended mission of the Deep Impact spacecraft, which flew past the small, hyperactive comet Hartley 2 in 2010.
Vesta & Ceres orbiter · NASA · launched 2007.
Psyche is travelling to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche to study a possible exposed planetary core.
NASA's international array of giant radio antennas — at Goldstone (California), Madrid, and Canberra — that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft and distant satellites, spaced around the globe for continuous coverage.
The US complex of NASA's Deep Space Network, in California's Mojave Desert. Its 70 m antenna (DSS-14, the 'Mars' dish) and a cluster of 34 m beam-waveguide antennas track spacecraft across the Solar System.
The European complex of NASA's Deep Space Network, outside Madrid. With Goldstone and Canberra it forms the three-station ring that keeps deep-space missions continuously in view.
The southern-hemisphere complex of NASA's Deep Space Network, in Australia. Its 70 m antenna (DSS-43) is the only one able to command Voyager 2 on its southward interstellar trajectory.
NASA's nerve centre for deep-space missions, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. From the SFOF, controllers command and monitor spacecraft across the Solar System through the Deep Space Network.
A laboratory that designs, builds, and operates spacecraft and instruments, often as a federally-funded centre managed for an agency by a university. JPL and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have built many of the great robotic missions.
The series of numerically-integrated ephemerides, produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that give the positions and velocities of the planets, the Moon, and the Sun to high precision over long spans. The DE ephemerides are the standard reference for precise Solar System calculations.
NASA's information system and software toolkit for computing the geometry of spacecraft and Solar System bodies — where a spacecraft is, where it is pointing, and what it can see. Its shared data files (kernels) are a de facto standard across planetary missions.
JPL's online ephemeris service, which generates highly accurate positions, distances, and other quantities for Solar System bodies and spacecraft, for any observer and time. It is the go-to tool for planning observations and checking where a body will be.
The reach of a research institution across the graph — the missions it runs, the facilities it operates, and the discoveries it has enabled — traced through the real relations.
The American Association of Variable Star Observers — for more than a century, the organisation that gathers variable-star observations from amateurs worldwide into a single database that professional astronomers draw on. The model for how amateur and professional astronomy work together.
The Agência Espacial Brasileira is the civilian agency responsible for Brazil's space programme.
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, which coordinates amateur observation of the Moon, the planets, comets, and asteroids — organising observing programmes and archiving the results so that amateur monitoring of the Solar System adds up to something lasting.
Arianespace is a European launch service provider that markets and operates launches of the Ariane family of rockets from the Guiana Space Centre.
The Agenzia Spaziale Italiana is Italy's national space agency, a significant contributor to ESA and to international planetary science missions.
A commercial operator of a low-Earth-orbit constellation for rapid-revisit Earth imaging.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.