Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

A new vision for people in space

Report outlines goals for future of human space program

December 16, 2008

Developing a better flight plan for weather forecasting

Flying robots could give people more time to prepare for the worst

December 11, 2008

Pan-STARRS 1 prototype, part of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, Haleakala mountain, Maui.

Early warning of dangerous asteroids and comets

Detectors developed at Lincoln Laboratory deployed in powerful telescope

November 18, 2008

Into the wild blue yonder

November 5, 2008

NASA Astronaut Greg Chamitoff PhD '92 catches a meal near the galley of the International Space Station. Michael Fincke '89 will be joining him shortly.

A giant leap for MIT: 4 alumni-astronauts will simultaneously be in orbit

October 29, 2008

Sky's the limit for Aero-Astro department

September 30, 2008

Nicholas Roy, left, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and Seth Teller, professor of computer science and engineering, stand next to the robotic wheelchair they co-designed, which can be navigated by vocal command.

Robot wheelchair finds its own way

MIT invention responds to user's spoken commands

September 19, 2008

Graphic shows four radio observatories in Hawaii, Arizona and California linked to create a 2,800-mile-wide virtual telescope.

New virtual telescope zooms in on Milky Way's super-massive black hole

September 3, 2008

MIT's venerable Millstone Hill Radar antenna is getting an upgrade, which will allow it to continue its work cataloging objects circling Earth and monitoring satellite and spacecraft launches.

Sputnik-era antenna gets 21st century upgrade

August 7, 2008

Lincoln Lab team wins aero-astro award

August 5, 2008

Image from the Chandra X-ray observatory shows remnants of supernova Cassiopeia A, and picks out the different X-ray signatures of elements such as iron and silicon that sprayed out in the explosive death of a star.

MIT instruments featured as highlight of NASA's 50 years

Chandra orbiting telescope in Nature's compilation of 10 NASA accomplishments

August 1, 2008

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's LAKaTT satellite terminal, utilized for testing communications over WGS satellites

Lincoln Lab successfully tests new satellite communications system

July 28, 2008

The scale of the heliosphere and nearby galactic neighborhood. The solar system and its nearby galactic neighborhood are illustrated here on a logarithmic scale extending (from < 1 to) 1 million Astornomical Units (AU).

MIT instrument studies edge of sun's bubble

Spacecraft gives data on space beyond sun's influence

July 7, 2008

Then-NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans, a former dean of the School of Engineering at MIT, stands behind Dr. Wernher von Braun as he explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy.

Robert C. Seamans Jr., 89

Former dean of the School of Engineering; worked on Apollo program at NASA

June 30, 2008

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards

June 4, 2008

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