Solar conjunction for our Europa spacecraft is now over! While we did not uplink commands for about 10 days, we were getting some telemetry confirming yhr health of the vehicle. The team is now back in the driver seat! To check out the current location of Clipper: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...

Rest in Peace Jim Lovell. 😢 I remember an exciting talk he gave about his Apollo 13 experience at Georgia Tech, which was truly inspirational. www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-lov...

Another cool result from the #Clipper flyby of #Mars, with this infrared image of the Red Planet with its two moons, Phobos, and Deimos! Un autre résultat intéressant du survol de Mars par notre sonde Europa Clipper, avec un cliché infrarouge de la planète et ses deux lunes, Phobos et Deimos!

Very exciting to see Clipper’s radar instrument REASON perform well during the Mars flyby a few months ago! Imagine what we’ll learn about #Europa’s subsurface! Le radar de #Clipper a bien fonctionné lors du survol de Mars il y a quelques mois, prometteur pour l’étude d’Europe!

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Please reach out to your elected officials to ask them to protect NASA’s funding for planetary science, in whatever way you can!

Isaacman Wins Support, But Also Criticism from Republicans spacepolicyonline.com/news/isaacma...

Cool rock found by the Perseverance rover on Mars!

Very exciting results from observations made with JWST!

Did you know NASA science is facing a 50% budget cut??? Please read this @astrobites.bsky.social post to learn more about it and what you can do astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...

Today, it has been 6 months since Europa Clipper launched from Kennedy Space Center, shortly after hurricane Milton caused havoc in the region. The spacecraft has been doing great ever since! Cela fait maintenant 6 mois qu’Europa Clipper a été lancé depuis le centre spatial Kennedy!

I didn’t have earthquake on my bingo card as flight director for Europa Clipper this morning! Glad the early warning notification worked and luckily the shaking on the 4th floor of our mission control was very limited.

Got a cool new Clipper patch this week! Un nouveau patch Clipper sympa !

Today we are five years away from Europa Clipper’s arrival at Jupiter on April 11, 2030. Are you ready for exciting discoveries about Europa, an icy moon that might harbor life in its subsurface ocean? 🤩 Nous sommes à 5 années de l’arrivée d’Europa Clipper a Jupiter !

Thank you Senator @mathildeollivier.bsky.social for visiting JPL and having a discussion with French scientists and engineers! Merci à notre sénatrice Mathilde Ollivier de nous avoir rendu visite à JPL et d’avoir échangé avec les chercheurs et ingénieurs français !

Things are getting exciting! Get the samples back to Earth! 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m a #STEMinist. Are you?

Awesome documentary in French about the history of JPL! By @astrovicnet.bsky.social Superbe documentaire sur l’histoire de JPL à travers les mouvements géopolitiques! Bel hommage à toutes ces missions interplanétaires qui font rêver (Voyager / Pathfinder m’ont poussé à travailler dans le spatial!)

Good luck SphereX and PUNCH for the launch tonight! 🚀

When your kids ask you what you did to save US science in the crisis of ‘25, you will say that you showed up! Please spread the word and join us!! @standupforscience.bsky.social

If this is true, then I’m very worried for the future of JPL. 😬

Happy to celebrate the hard work of the teams involved in the SphereX and Lunar Trailblazer missions, with this awesome poster.

Now that the Mars flyby of Europa Clipper was successful, the team is starting the preparations for a “cleanup maneuver” scheduled later this month, which will put the spacecraft in a good trajectory to fly by the Earth next year!

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Reporting as Flight Director today for Europa Clipper: impressed by the amazing work the team has done to prepare and execute the Mars Flyby. It’s always cool to see all the plots from telemetry match the predicts! Go Clipper! 🛰️

Congrats to the Blue Ghost team for this successful landing on the Moon!

We’re following the Europa Clipper flyby of Mars happening right now! Check out this page for explanations and a video simulation! On suit de près le flyby de Mars de notre sonde Europa Clipper qui se déroule en ce moment! Simulation vidéo et explications sur cette page!

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

Last week we uplinked the sequence that Europa Clipper will execute to perform the Mars Flyby planned for this week! Look how close (884km!) to Mars the spacecraft will fly: eyes.nasa.gov/staging/apps... This will also be our first eclipse since launch and will last for 51 mins!

Four years ago, our fierce #Perseverance rover landed on Mars. In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, we were all reminded - even if temporarily - of what can be accomplished when we all work together. Here’s to many more years of exploration and discovery on the Red Planet. Merci! 🤩🎂

Are the rumors of 15% layoffs at Blue Origin tomorrow true?

Crazy to think that it already takes us almost 10min to talk to Europa Clipper and hear back from it due to its distance from us! (What we call the Round Trip Light Time)

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It’s hard to get back to work when 200 colleagues lost their house in the fires and more have been displaced. This week we have commanded the Clipper spacecraft from home, with help from our APL friends. We find some comfort in the fact that the vehicle is still doing ok in space. #ForwardTogether

Although first responders were successful in keeping the fire from JPL, over 150 JPLers have lost their homes. Here’s link to the Caltech/JPL disaster relief fund if you’re so inclined: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema... Thanks for your support of our JPL family.

JPL will remain closed next week. We’re hearing that more than 150 of our colleagues have lost their house in the fire. I’m so heartbroken for everyone. 😭 JPL restera fermé la semaine prochaine. On vient d’apprendre que plus de 150 de nos collègues ont perdu leur maison. 😭

Altadena 😭

I don’t know who took this shocking picture, but it shows how close the fire got to JPL. 😱 Official updates from the lab are posted at: https://buff.ly/4fQMtF4 🇫🇷 Les flammes de l’incendie d’Eaton au moment où elles étaient à proximité de JPL. #LAfires

Update on the water in Pasadena: not drinkable in the gray zone, drinkable outside the gray zone https://buff.ly/3DSeU8k

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us