QUESTION: Who manages the Cassini Project? ANSWER from FAQ on June 11, 1999: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Pasadena, California manages the Cassini Project. JPL is under contract with NASA to design and fly space missions. JPL is especially famous for its work in planetary science, including the Voyager missions. Technicians assembled the Cassini spacecraft at JPL in a large room called High Bay 2 located in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility.