The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Reaches For The Cloud
April 29, 2015
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been putting rockets into the air since World War II, but its involvement with cloud computing goes back only about six years. JPL is a federally funded research center, run by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for space exploration projects, particularly robotic missions.
Despite its mission to "dare mighty things," JPL must also be cautious in order to protect lives, complicated equipment, and money while managing missions in extreme environments. JPL built the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, as part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission…
The people who work there deal with some of the most advanced technology on Earth (or anywhere else we know of) but do so in a context where risk must be minimized, because so much can go wrong and the stakes are so high…
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