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A satellite with a happy birthday hat flies through space.
In the Media

TESS celebrates its fifth “launchiversary”

April 20, 2023
MIT TESS News
An illustration of data being sent across a laser from a small satellite to a ground station on Earth.

Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet

November 8, 2022
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 photo of a 3d printer nozzle extriding material onto a piece of glass.

3D-printed shielding can help protect satellites from radiation damage

March 28, 2022
an image from a satellite taken of earth; antarctica at the bottom is colored blue, and color ranges through yellow, orange, and red up near the equator
In the Media

NASA’s TROPICS Pathfinder satellite produces global first light images and captures Hurricane Ida

September 13, 2021
NASA
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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