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	MAGAZINES		The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by the California Institute of Technology, is NASA's lead center for robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL’s spacecraft have visited all the planets in our solar system except Pluto. JPL telescopes are observing distant galaxies in the universe to study how our solar system was formed. JPL also manages the worldwide Deep Space Network, which communicates with spacecraft and conducts scientific investigations from its complexes in California's Mojave Desert near Goldstone; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. JPL cameras and sensors are aboard satellites circling Earth to study the ozone, oceans and other Earth sciences. To support its continued exploration, JPL is making advances in technology with new instruments and computer programs to help spaceships travel further and telescopes see farther than ever before. JPL is directed by Dr.Charles Elachi.

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			Charles Elachi was born in Rayak, Lebanon. He was Principal Investigator on numerous research and development studies and flight projects sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. These include comparative oceanography, polar ice mapping and dynamics, study of Venus cloud and surface properties, multispectral Titan radar imager/sounder, Mars altimetry, and the Shuttle Imaging Radar series. He was Principal Investigator for the Shuttle Imaging Radar series (SIR-A in 1981, SIR-B in 1984 and SIR-C in 1994), was a Co-Investigator on the Magellan imaging radar, and is presently the Team Leader of the Cassini Titan Radar experiment and a co-investigator on the Rosetta Comet Nucleus Sounder Experiment. He is the author of over 200 publications in the fields of space and planetary exploration, Earth observation from space, active microwave remote sensing, wave propagation and scattering, electromagnetic theory, lasers, and integrated optics, and he holds several patents in those fields. In addition, he has authored three textbooks in the field of remote sensing. One of these textbooks has been translated into Chinese.


			Dr. Elachi has received numerous awards, including the Dryden Award (2000,), the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1999), the COSPAR Nordberg Medal (1996), the Nevada Medal (1995), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1994), the IEEE Medal of Engineering Excellence (1992), the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Distin- guished Achievement Award (1987), the W.T. Pecora Award (1985), the NASA Exceptional Scientific Medal (1982), and the ASP Autometric Award (1980 and 1982).


	Respect for his accomplishments is even reflected in the heavens, by the Asteroid 1982 SU that was renamed 4116 Elachi in 1989. Elachi is now responsible for the hopes, dreams and success of more than 5,000 employees. Were he to pick a pet project, his flock might drop everything else and run to it. He resides in Pasadena, California, USA.

	More on Charles Elachi: Charles Elachi's mission impossible Caltech press release: new JPL director Elachi receiving Takeda Award JPL executive council: Dr. Elachi on top Sources: Caltech_JPL Press Conference


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