AIAA honors David Mindell for ‘Digital Apollo’
MIT professor’s book earns Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award.
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Aeronautics and Astronautics
Driving drones can be a drag
Study shows distractions may alleviate boredom and improve drone operators’ performance.
Paintballs may deflect an incoming asteroid
With 20 years’ notice, paint pellets could cause an asteroid to veer off course.
Researchers examine health impacts of more U.K. runways
Study: An expanded Heathrow Airport would lead to 100 more pollution-related early deaths annually in the U.K. by 2030.
MIT alums recount their Martian experiences
Several AeroAstro alumni return to campus to describe landing the Curiosity rover on Mars.
Department snapshot: Aeronautics and Astronautics
AeroAstro takes off in new directions — prompting a 50 percent spike in new undergraduate enrollments.
Open Education on the Move: An Interview with Vijay Kumar
Director of MIT's Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) discusses some of the key concepts propelling the open education movement.
NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission
Curiosity is the most ambitious planetary rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory projects JPL is undertaking.
Harris to receive President’s Award from NOBCChE
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers to honor professor, associate provost on Sept. 28.
U.S. News ranks MIT sixth overall among U.S. universities
Institute’s undergraduate engineering program is again ranked No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
MIT-developed ‘microthrusters’ could propel small satellites
As small as a penny, these thrusters run on jets of ion beams.
Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
Research update: SPHERES to get powerful magnets and goggles
New wireless power and camera setups will expand the mini-satellites’ vision and navigation capabilities.
New aircraft capable of fast, accurate and repeatable flight
CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group unveils new computer-controlled aircraft that can perform knife-edge turns.