How to reach a tumbling target in space
Experiments aboard International Space Station demonstrate a potential solution for cleaning up orbital debris and repairing damaged satellites.
Experiments aboard International Space Station demonstrate a potential solution for cleaning up orbital debris and repairing damaged satellites.
Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.
Probstein’s research had diverse applications in fields including aeronautics, energy, desalination, and soil decontamination.
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
Fifty years after the first moon landing with Apollo 11, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics looks to the future of space exploration at MIT.
Professor Kerri Cahoy and her group recently delivered MicroMAS, the weather nanosatellite they built in collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, to a launch provider.
NASA crewmembers reflect on the most complex space repair in history.
Physicists and astronaut discuss cosmic ray detector’s findings of possible signs of dark matter.
MIT professor’s book earns Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award.
Alum-astronaut relives some of the highlights of his space shuttle career.
MIT has contributed 27 alumni-astronauts, plenty of earthbound expertise.