The Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) owned by NASA and operated as a division of Caltech through a contract between NASA and Caltech.

The JPL Director also serves as a Caltech Vice President and is responsible to the President of the Institute for the management of the Laboratory.

In addition to managing JPL, Caltech also operates the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Bishop, California, the Submillimeter Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory at the Mauna Kea Observatory, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington, and Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California.

JPL is managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

JPL is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA.

On August 30, 2007, a group of JPL employees filed suit in federal court against NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce, claiming their Constitutional rights were being violated by new, overly invasive background investigations.

Conversely, JPL, through the Caltech lawyers representing the laboratory, allege that Coppedge's termination was simply due to budget cuts and his demotion from team lead was because of harassment complaints and from on-going conflicts with his co-workers.

His early work was done on mainframes at III, JPL, and Caltech.

Charles Bartley, employed at JPL ( Caltech ), substituted curable synthetic rubber for the gooey asphalt, creating a flexible but geometrically stable load-bearing propellant grain that bonded securely to the motor casing.

* Basics of Spaceflight tutorial from JPL / Caltech

The network is a NASA facility and is managed and operated for NASA by JPL, which is part of the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ).

* NASA / Caltech JPL DSN – official site.

One driven out of Caltech and NASA JPL, the other from the German scientists that developed the early V2 rocket guidance and MIT.

Hence, beginning in 1958, NASA JPL and the Caltech crew became focused primarily on unmanned flight and shifted away from military applications with a few exceptions.

Research time is granted to Caltech and its research partners, which includes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) and Cornell University.

Old Pasadena began as the center of an enlightened " Athens of the West " that gave rise to Caltech, JPL, as well as Beckman Instruments, Aerojet and numerous other industrial giants.

He participated in the Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey ( PCAS ) as an observer and astrometrist under the direction of Dr. Eleanor F. Helin ( JPL / Caltech ) from 1985 to 1988.

WFPC was proposed by James A. Westphal, a professor of planetary science at Caltech, and was designed, constructed, and managed by JPL.

* The HP 200LX was used on board the NASA Discovery OV103 Mission STS-95 ( the last mission of Senator John Glenn ) in an Electronic Nose ( E-Nose ) experiment ( the device was developed jointly by Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) and the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech )).

In 2007, researchers at JPL / Caltech have also discovered Raman lasing with fluorite resonators, demonstrating record low threshold and high efficiency.

Caltech was found to offer the highest return of investment of college education, at $ 1, 713, 000 over a 30-year period, according to the same study.

After Conant returned to the United States, Arthur Amos Noyes made him an attractive offer to move to Caltech.

At Caltech, Geneticist Beadle has stuck close to his research as head of the school's famous biology division since 1946.

The California Institute of Technology ( commonly referred to as Caltech ) is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States.

Caltech managed $ 332 million in sponsored research and $ 1. 77 billion for its endowment in 2011.

The voting faculty of Caltech include all professors, instructors, research associates and fellows, and the University Librarian.

Caltech is a small four-year, highly residential research university with a slight majority in graduate programs.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, a ranking with an emphasis on bibliometric data and scientific research, ranked Caltech 6th in the world and 5th in the U. S. for 2011.

The research facilities at Caltech are available to graduate students, but there are opportunities for students to work in facilities of other universities, research centers as well as private industries.

Caltech manages research expenditures of $ 270 million annually, 66th among all universities in the U. S. and 17th among private institutions without medical schools for 2008.

In 2005, Caltech had dedicated to research: to physical sciences, to engineering, and to biological sciences.

Undergraduates at Caltech are also encouraged to participate in research.

Peer institutions of Carnegie Mellon's institutional research and analysis program include Caltech, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, RPI, Stanford, Penn and Washington University.

At Caltech most of his scientific research focused on the study of " cosmic rays " ( a term which he coined ).

* 1976-1979: concept of Teradata grows from research at California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) and from the discussions of Citibank ’ s advanced technology group.

Concluding in March 2007, the Caltech investigation found van Parijs alone committed research misconduct and that four papers co-authored by Baltimore, van Parijs, and others required correction.

In 1944 he and others affiliated with GALCIT founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is now a Federally funded research and development center managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA.

He said that he wants the gift to be used to keep Caltech at the forefront of research and technology.

In the early 1990s the filing cabinets containing Qian's research work were offered to him by Caltech.

The research in Tohoku University and Caltech yielded multicomponent alloys based on lanthanum, magnesium, zirconium, palladium, iron, copper, and titanium, with critical cooling rate between 1 K / s to 100 K / s, comparable to oxide glasses.

In 1992, the commercial amorphous alloy, Vitreloy 1 ( 41. 2 % Zr, 13. 8 % Ti, 12. 5 % Cu, 10 % Ni, and 22. 5 % Be ), was developed at Caltech, as a part of Department of Energy and NASA research of new aerospace materials.