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NASA will use telescope arrays at Table Mountain, Calif., and White Sands, N.M. to send and receive signals to Orion’s optical communications system. Photo: Robert Lafon / NASA
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Lunar Pioneers Will Use Lasers to Phone Home

July 22, 2019
IEEE Spectrum
three disc-shaped microfluidic device that were 3D printed

Scientists look to synthetic biology and 3D printing for life support in space

July 18, 2019
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets in the data from the space telescope’s four cameras. Photo: NASA/MIT/TESS
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NASA's TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae

February 13, 2019
NASA
MIT graduate students Pronoy Biswas (left) and Mark Chodas (right) prepare the REXIS instrument for flight. Photo: William Litant/MIT

Catching rays with REXIS on the way to asteroid Bennu

January 17, 2019
Imagery generated from data collected by ATMS on NOAA-20
Awards

Lincoln Laboratory scientists among recipients of major NASA awards

November 6, 2018
Captured image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and bright star R.
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NASA's TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds

September 17, 2018
NASA
3D Rendering of the Transitioning Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
In the Media

TESS primed and ready to discover distant worlds

August 2, 2018
Spaceflight Insider
Staff from the Laboratory and the aerospace company Orbital ATK inspect the satellite in Dulles, Virginia, prior to shipment to the Kennedy Space Center for launch vehicle integration. The four cameras can be seen inside the sunshade. Photo: Orbital ATK

Laboratory cameras are enabling TESS’s quest for exoplanets

June 18, 2018
Asteroid 2015 TB145 (the "Halloween Asteroid") is depicted in eight individual radar images collected on Oct. 31, 2015 between 5:55 a.m. PDT (8:55 a.m. EDT) and 6:08 a.m. PDT (9:08 a.m. EDT).
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New report assesses status of detecting near-Earth asteroids

November 15, 2017
NASA
The panchromatic-sharpened, natural color image of Boston above was generated from data collected during a 23 April 2001 scan by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI).

Earth Observing–1 satellite is retired, leaving a legacy of spectacular imagery

April 12, 2017
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