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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

The REXIS instrument will help the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft determine which areas on Bennu to sample.

A plane is propelled via ionic wind. Batteries in the fuselage (tan compartment on front) supply voltage to electrodes (blue/white horizontal lines), generating a wind of ions that propels the plane forward. Photo: Christine Y. He
In the Media

MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts

November 21, 2018
MIT News
Erik Limpaecher connects cables to solar panels on a roof
In the Media

Infrastructure for resilient power systems

September 21, 2018
Typhoon HIL
As the additive manufacturing lead at Lincoln Laboratory, Derek Straub consults with technical staff to design 3D-printed parts for various systems and technologies and oversees production on nine industrial machines. Photo: Nicole Fandel
Awards

Derek Straub is shaping the future of additive manufacturing

September 20, 2018
Captured image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and bright star R.
In the Media

NASA's TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds

September 17, 2018
NASA
A group of about 30 people pose in front of an airplane

Lincoln Laboratory team uses lidar to assess damage in Puerto Rico

August 30, 2018
WaveSense ground penetrating radar tech comes out of MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, a defense R&D center, and was first deployed to help troops navigate in Afghanistan in 2013.
In the Media

Self-driving cars should look down, not just ahead

August 20, 2018
Wired
Portrait photo of Estefania Bohorquez
Awards

"Future leaders" in aerospace complete summer research

August 16, 2018
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
Pictured is the undersea vehicle emitting a beam.

Lincoln Laboratory advances undersea optical communications

August 1, 2018
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