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An artist's rendition of a satellite carrying a laser communications payload above the Earth in low Earth orbit.
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NASA’s record-breaking laser demo completes mission

September 25, 2024
NASA
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launched in October 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Deep-space camera sends farthest optical communications link yet

June 17, 2024
A satellite with a happy birthday hat flies through space.
In the Media

TESS celebrates its fifth “launchiversary”

April 20, 2023
MIT TESS News
A small commercial drone outfitted with four toroidal propellers (each propeller looks like two loops, made of plastic).
Awards

Six Lincoln Laboratory inventions win R&D 100 Awards

September 8, 2022
a technician loads a reticle (a kind of optical blueprint) into the 193-nm lithography tool used in the sensor production process.
In the Media

How did black holes shape the cosmos? Fast, low-noise X-ray sensors may provide the answer

August 17, 2022
NASA Science
A small satelitte photographed against a white background. About , about 10 cm X 10 cm X 36 cm in size, it consists of a small solar panel array, connected to the satellite bus standing upright, topped with a golden cube.

Pathfinder satellite paves way for constellation of tropical-storm observers

June 30, 2021
Six small satllite buses (about size of loaf of bread) are photographed against a white background.
In the Media

Tiny satellites could help warn of the next big hurricane

June 27, 2021
Wired
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
In the Media

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
In the Media

NASA's TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae

February 13, 2019
NASA
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