The NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge announced on Tuesday that it will lay off about 5% of its staff.

Employees affected by the latest round of job cuts were to be notified Wednesday. In February, JPL announced plans to lay off about 530 employees, or roughly 8% of its workforce, in response to a reduced budget from NASA and lack of a new spending plan from Congress for the new fiscal year.

The La Cañada Flintridge research institution will let go of approximately 325 employees across the organization, about 5% of its total staff.

Barely nine months after the last cut, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will again reduce its workforce. On Wednesday, the lab will lay 325 employees off, representing about 5 percent of the workforce at the California-based laboratory that leads the development of robotic space probes for NASA.