Space Systems and Technology
Ensuring critical U.S. space activities
We develop technology to meet the challenges of an increasingly congested and contested space domain. Our engineers design, prototype, operate, and assess systems that detect, track, identify, and characterize resident space objects. Given the potential for conventional conflict to extend to space, we conduct R&D on concepts and systems that will provide space mission resilience.
Space Systems and Technology
We research and develop technology for advanced satellite systems that are used to monitor the activity of objects in space and to perform remote sensing of Earth.
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Featured Projects
environmental monitoring
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Series
The Laboratory's long-term collaboration with NOAA and NASA on environmental monitoring satellites has led to revolutionized weather imagery and products and improved detection for space and solar phenomena.
space situational awareness
Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar
Lincoln Laboratory created the world's highest-resolution radar for imaging of space objects in support of space situational awareness.
surveillance
Multi-Aperture Sparse Imager Video System
An airborne system provides high-resolution wide-area video imagery and onboard data processing to enable real-time monitoring of suspicious human activity.
space
Deployable In-Space Coherent Imaging Telescope
Technologies enabling the deployment of an expandable telescope from a small spacecraft could pave the way for the development of other payloads for small satellites.
Laboratory Stories
The Lab has this rare mix of focus on technical excellence, innovation, and work-life balance that really pushes me to flourish in my career and as a person.
Andres Sisneros
Signal Processing Engineer
Space Systems and Technology
Advanced Sensors and Techniques
The Laboratory is full of people smarter than me. I love being able to learn from colleagues and come up with creative, collaborative designs that I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to get to alone.
Benjamin Buck
Electrical Engineer
Space Systems and Technology
Integrated Systems and Concepts
The opportunity to engage, educate, and inspire the next generation of engineers is refreshing for me, and I deeply appreciate that it's so tightly coupled into the definition of what Lincoln Laboratory is as an institution.
David Patterson
Research Engineer
Space Systems and Technology
Advanced Capabilities and Technologies
So many dedicated individuals here put their work above themselves and do their best to do the job right. I am always impressed by the sense of purpose everyone has at the Lab.
J. Brent Parham
Aerospace engineer
Space Systems and Technology
Space Systems Analysis and Test
Advancing Our Research
Featured Publications
Shining light on thermophysical Near-Earth Asteroid modeling efforts
Jan 22
1st NEO and Debris Detection Conf., 22-24 January 2019.
SST asteroid search performance 2014-2017
Mar 3
2018 IEEE Aerospace Conf., 3-10 March 2018.
Asteroid search operations with the Space Surveillance Telescope
Mar 5
2016 IEEE Aerospace Conf., 5-12 March 2016.
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Career Opportunities
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