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In the Media

Faces of MIT: Melissa Smith PhD ’12

January 28, 2025
MIT News
A researcher makes adjustments to a dilution refrigerator, a large piece of hardware for cooling quantum systems.
In the Media

How 'clean' does a quantum computing test facility need to be?

December 18, 2024
PNNL
A computer-generated image of the AXIS telescope in space.
In the Media

AXIS mission selected as NASA Astrophysics Probe competition finalist

October 29, 2024
MIT News
Commemorative photograph with the Children's Selection Committee members.
In the Media

"Torifune" is the new name for asteroid 2001 CC21

October 1, 2024
Hayabusa Project
A payload shown above the Gulf of California, just after it was jettisoned by a robotic arm from the International Space Station into orbit.
In the Media

Lift-off for space lasers

October 1, 2024
Optics & Photonics News
A cluttered desk scene as "seen" through robot's eyes show colored cubes as recognized objects.
In the Media

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter

September 30, 2024
MIT News
An artist's rendition of a satellite carrying a laser communications payload above the Earth in low Earth orbit.
In the Media

NASA’s record-breaking laser demo completes mission

September 25, 2024
NASA
MIT students Rachael Rosco and Brandon Sun work on the droplet-dispensing manifold inside the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works center, located on MIT campus.
In the Media

NSRI, MIT Lincoln Laboratory announce strategic partnership, results of student R&D

July 11, 2024
NSRI
GOES-19, the last of four giants, rolls toward its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center earlier this month.BEN SMEGELSKY/NASA
In the Media

Small, nimble weather satellites could track the atmosphere moment by moment, boosting forecasts

June 25, 2024
Science
A collage of pet photos — including cats, dogs, birds, and rabbits — overlaid on Earth with laser links between Earth and a communications terminal on the International Space Station.
In the Media

NASA's laser relay system sends pet imagery to, from Space Station

June 10, 2024
NASA
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