Reaching Mars.Reaching Mars: The NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. awarded a $2.16 million contract to Pasadena-based Alliance Spacesystems LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control so the company can continue engineering robotic arms A robotic arm is a robot manipulator, usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm. The links of such a manipulator are connected by joints allowing either rotational motion (such as in an articulated robot) or translational (linear) displacement. used on rovers that explore Mars. Alliance Spacesystems worked on robotic arms still in use on NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers which began exploring the planet in January 2004. The latest robotic arm will be twice as long as previous models at 6 feet, and it will be 10 times heavier. It will be used on the Mars rover mission to be launched in 2009. |
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