JPL
Proper noun
Meaning
JPL
(space science, US) Initialism of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Examples
If there's a stack [of novels to review], the unpromising stuff goes at the top and the promising stuff goes at the bottom. That way, I am eager to finish Overwrought Romantic Mary Sue Fantasy because I know that will let me read Niche Product That Only the Author, James and Some Guy at JPL Likes.
97% of JPL employees were classified at the low-risk level and would be subjected to the same clearance procedures as those obtaining moderate/high risk clearance.
A guidance system failure was quickly suspected as the culprit, but JPL navigation chief Bill O'Neil dismissed the idea that the entire guidance system had failed.
As the story goes, after the Ranger program had experienced failure after failure during the 1960s, the first successful Ranger mission to impact the Moon occurred while a JPL staff member was eating peanuts.
Caltech manages research expenditures of $270 million annually, Funding for Caltech does not include NASA's funding for JPL.
Access Mars features some of the most important locations from the mission, key points of interest, and narration from JPL Mission Scientist Katie Stack.