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MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. We look ahead by looking up. ✈️🚀🛰🤖🌎

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Climate change is reducing the atmosphere’s ability to burn up old space junk, decreasing the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space. “If the atmosphere is changing, then the debris environment will change too,” William Parker says. mitsha.re/5ZB450VfMjc

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MIT engineers have developed Clio, a new method that helps robots identify and focus on task-relevant objects in real-time. This innovation could revolutionize search and rescue missions. news.mit.edu/2024/helping-r…

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On March 6, the #IM2 lunar mission landed on the surface of the moon, near the south pole, carrying three payloads developed by Media Lab researchers and collaborators—a digital 3D camera; a tiny rover we've dubbed the AstroAnt; and a collaborative art project called HUMANS.

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Hamsa Balakrishnan, a professor in MIT AeroAstro, is one of the 2023-25 Committed to Caring cohort, a program that recognizes those who go above and beyond for graduate students. news.mit.edu/2025/compassio…

Hamsa Balakrishnan, a professor in <a href="/MITAeroAstro/">MIT AeroAstro</a>, is one of the 2023-25 Committed to Caring cohort, a program that recognizes those who go above and beyond for graduate students.

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Welcome to aerospace engineering–where pressure fuels problem-solving. In Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace Engineers, students design, build, and test a rocket engine turbopump, preparing them for a career in the aerospace industry. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=XbsrWI…

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Congrats to LIDS PI Youssef Marzouk named a 2025 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for his “seminal contributions to multiple aspects of uncertainty quantification, particularly Bayesian computation and measure transport.” bit.ly/4l5EJmg

Congrats to LIDS PI Youssef Marzouk named a 2025 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for his “seminal contributions to multiple aspects of uncertainty quantification, particularly Bayesian computation and measure transport.” bit.ly/4l5EJmg
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Researchers in MIT AeroAstro have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that will reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit there. news.mit.edu/2025/study-cli…

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A team of researchers, including MIT AeroAstro professor and LIDS PI Moe Win, has developed a new theoretical approach for generating quantum states that could lead to improved accuracy and reliability of information and decision systems. news.mit.edu/2025/researche…

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A popular new MIT AeroAstro class, 16.811: Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace Engineers, is a communication-intensive laboratory course that allows juniors and seniors to gain experience that mirrors the challenges they’ll face as practicing engineers. news.mit.edu/2025/preparing…

A popular new <a href="/MITAeroAstro/">MIT AeroAstro</a> class, 16.811: Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace Engineers, is a communication-intensive laboratory course that allows juniors and seniors to gain experience that mirrors the challenges they’ll face as practicing engineers.

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Last month, the IM-2 lunar mission landed on the surface of the moon, carrying three payloads developed by Media Lab researchers and collaborators—a cross-MIT collaboration led by @explorespace_ml (SEI) and developed with MIT AeroAstro and @MIT_nano. The MIT mission was based out

Last month, the IM-2 lunar mission landed on the surface of the moon, carrying three payloads developed by Media Lab researchers and collaborators—a cross-MIT collaboration led by @explorespace_ml (SEI) and developed with <a href="/MITAeroAstro/">MIT AeroAstro</a> and @MIT_nano. The MIT mission was based out
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Terrific analysis by MIT’s most recent past president about the importance of investing in science, especially in a time of global competition for tech leadership. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

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In a new paper published in Acta Astronautica, Media Lab Research Engineer Minoo Rathnasabapathy, Prof. Danielle Wood (Danielle Wood), and collaborators discuss the history, motivation, and design of the Space Sustainability Rating (SSR). Created in 2019, the SSR is an incentive

In a new paper published in Acta Astronautica, Media Lab Research Engineer Minoo Rathnasabapathy, Prof. Danielle Wood (<a href="/space_enabled/">Danielle Wood</a>), and collaborators discuss the history, motivation, and design of the Space Sustainability Rating (SSR). Created in 2019, the SSR is an incentive
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When the IM-2 lunar mission landed on the surface of the moon in March, it was in an off-nominal position (on its side). In SpaceNews, senior writer Jeff Foust looks at how the companies, organizations, and researchers who had payloads on the mission made the most of the

When the IM-2 lunar mission landed on the surface of the moon in March, it was in an off-nominal position (on its side). In <a href="/SpaceNews_Inc/">SpaceNews</a>, senior writer <a href="/jeff_foust/">Jeff Foust</a> looks at how the companies, organizations, and researchers who had payloads on the mission made the most of the
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A team of researchers, including members of MIT AeroAstro and LIDS, is developing a system for predicting rare kinds of failures, which could be used in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles. news.mit.edu/2025/learning-…

A team of researchers, including members of <a href="/MITAeroAstro/">MIT AeroAstro</a> and LIDS, is developing a system for predicting rare kinds of failures, which could be used in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.

news.mit.edu/2025/learning-…
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🧠💻 New “smart coach” boosts AI’s problem-solving superpowers! CodeSteer, a smart assistant from Chuchu Fan, Yongchao Chen, et al, guides LLMs on when to use text reasoning & when to switch to writing code, boosting LLM accuracy when solving complex problems bit.ly/4eX7XRL

🧠💻 New “smart coach” boosts AI’s problem-solving superpowers! CodeSteer, a smart assistant from Chuchu Fan, <a href="/YongchaoC/">Yongchao Chen</a>, et al, guides LLMs on when to use text reasoning &amp; when to switch to writing code, boosting LLM accuracy when solving complex problems bit.ly/4eX7XRL