California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Space Flight Operations Facility is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: School
- Description: Jet Propulsion Laboratory facility in Pasadena, California
- Also known as: “California Institute of Technology”, “Caltech”, “SFOF”, “Space Flight Operations Facility”, “Throop College of Technology”, and “Throop Polytechnic Institute”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research institute
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.
Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator
Historic building
The Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is a chamber for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions, including extreme cold, high radiation, and near-vacuum pressure. Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is situated 450 feet north of California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Cañada Flintridge and Altadena.
La Cañada Flintridge
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
La Cañada Flintridge is a city of about 20,000 people at the extreme northwest end of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California.
Altadena
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Altadena is an unincorporated area, and census-designated place in the San Gabriel Valley and the Verdugos regions of Los Angeles County, California. Directly north of Pasadena, it is located approximately 14 miles from Downtown Los Angeles. Altadena is situated 2½ miles east of California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Altacanyada
Hamlet
La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada, is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Altacanyada is situated 2½ miles northwest of California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Categories: mission control center and education
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معهد كاليفورنيا للتكنولوجيا”
- Bengali: “ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া ইন্সটিটিউট অফ টেকনোলজি”
- Bulgarian: “Калифорнийски технологичен институт”
- Chinese: “加州理工學院”
- Dutch: “Caltech - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Esperanto: “Kalifornia Instituto de Teknologio”
- French: “California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- German: “California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Hungarian: “California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Indonesian: “Institut Teknologi California”
- Indonesian: “Space Flight Operations Facility”
- Italian: “Caltech - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Japanese: “カリフォルニア工科大学”
- Japanese: “宇宙飛行運用施設”
- Korean: “캘리포니아 공과대학교”
- Portuguese: “Caltech - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Russian: “Калифорнийский технологический институт”
- Slovenian: “SFOF”
- Slovenian: “Space Flight Operations Facility”
- Slovenian: “Središče za operacije vesoljskih poletov”
- Spanish: “Instituto Tecnológico de California”
- Swedish: “California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
- Thai: “สถาบันเทคโนโลยีแคลิฟอร์เนีย”
- Turkish: “California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory”
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