Space Systems and Technology

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 Control - Ensuring critical U.S. space activities

Advanced Capabilities and Technologies
Advanced Sensors and Techniques
Applied Space Systems
Information Integration and Decision Support
Integrated Systems and Concepts
Space Systems Analysis and Test

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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Deployed into the geosynchronous belt, the Japanese satellite QZSS, which carries an optical payload (QZSS-HP) developed by Lincoln Laboratory, will monitor objects in that region of space.

Lincoln Laboratory is designing a payload to integrate on Japanese satellites

Nov 16

Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at work. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

In the Media

NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission

Aug 11

NASA

Awards

Young AFCEA 40 Under 40 Award honors two thought leaders at the Laboratory

Jul 16

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Imagery from the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager

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.

The MASIVS sensor uses four focal planes.

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.

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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.