AS127

AS127 is a legacy fall-1987 allocation registered under ARIN to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (OrgId JPL-15, Pasadena, CA), carrying the handle "JPL-AS127." JPL is a NASA federally funded research-and-development center (FFRDC) managed by the California Institute of Technology, responsible for robotic space missions — Mars rovers, planetary science, and Earth observation. The ARIN RegDate is 1987-09-16 (verbatim for both autnum and org; registry updated 2021-10-29). It is an actively-routed, clean research network: JPL holds 27 ARIN-allocated netblocks and announces 68 IPv4 prefixes (~275,456 addresses) plus 3 IPv6 prefixes per RIPEstat routing-status (more-specifics deaggregated from those netblocks; e.g., 207.151.192.0/19 and 2001:1878:5ff::/48), peering with 3 networks and 2 upstream carriers per bgp.tools, with RPKI valid for its originated prefixes (per bgp.he.net). Its abuse contact resolves to "NASA Abuse" (abuse@nasa.gov) at Marshall Space Flight Center. For triage this is a live NASA/Caltech FFRDC research network encountered as JPL/NASA scientific traffic. No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026.

Operator

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (ARIN OrgId JPL-15, Pasadena, CA; NASA FFRDC managed by Caltech) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed]

Allocated

ARIN RegDate 1987-09-16 (verbatim for autnum and org; registry updated 2021-10-29) [Confirmed]

Org status

active

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal as of 2026-06-10; abuse resolves to "NASA Abuse" (abuse@nasa.gov), Marshall Space Flight Center — ipinfo.io

Network & routing

Network type

FFRDC / research-education (NASA/Caltech) [Confirmed]

Size

27 ARIN-allocated netblocks; announces 68 IPv4 prefixes (~275,456 addresses) + 3 IPv6 prefixes — more-specifics deaggregated from the netblocks, e.g. 207.151.192.0/19, 2001:1878:5ff::/48 — RIPEstat routing-status (2026-06-13) / bgp.he.net

Routing/peering

active; ~3 peers, ~2 upstreams (bgp.tools); RPKI valid for originated prefixes — bgp.he.net

Notable usage

[historical/current] "JPL-AS / Jet Propulsion Laboratory" — a NASA FFRDC managed by Caltech, responsible for robotic space missions (Mars rovers, planetary science, Earth observation) — jpl.nasa.gov

Related ASNs

NASA-family ASNs (e.g. AS23/AS24/AS41 seen earlier in this sweep) [Likely]

Analyst note

A live, clean NASA/Caltech FFRDC research network; encountered as JPL/NASA scientific traffic.