The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a major research university that plays a significant role in the space industry through its various departments and affiliated laboratories. MIT conducts research and develops technologies related to small spacecraft, astrophysics, space exploration, and aerospace engineering. Key partners include NASA, with whom MIT collaborates on projects like CubeSat missions, advanced air mobility, and the Deep Space Network, and MIT also houses the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI), which leads in exoplanet discovery and gravitational wave observation.
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory is working with the Japanese National Space Policy Secretariat and Mitsubishi Electric Company to integrate the sensors on QZS-6 and QZS-7.
The optical sensors were developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory under a 2019 agreement with the U.S. Air Force.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory developed the Space Surveillance Telescope more than 20 years ago with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
STAR-X will include a spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace, an X-ray telescope (XRT) provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a UV telescope (UVT) provided by the University of Colorado.
MIT Media Lab’s Wax Casting experiment will test fabrication of cleaner propellants such as paraffin and beeswax in microgravity and was developed by the Space Enabled Research Group with support from Tec-Masters, Inc.
A DARPA-led study team is working with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Space Development Agency, and other organizations to integrate commercial, government, and military satellite communities.
William Blackwell is the principal investigator for TROPICS at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the mission requires targeted insertion to a 30-degree inclined orbit that few other missions seek.
Tomorrow.io is working with MIT Lincoln Laboratory on a microwave sounder for its planned weather satellites.
In May, SpaceX launched a satellite built by Blue Canyon Technologies for MIT Lincoln Laboratory that aims to test operations in VLEO for several months.
PTD-3 carries the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
PTD-3 carries the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Ryo Ujiie received an M.S. degree in engineering and management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016.
Agile Microsat, or AMS, is a standardized 6U cubesat bus that Blue Canyon designed, built, and tested for MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Two customer payloads and a hosted software suite designed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory that provides autonomous orbit maintenance are aboard HACSSAT 1 and HACSSAT 2.
The TBIRD payload is funded by NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program and was developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
The TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload is funded by NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program and developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Terran Orbital expects to deliver a 6U cubesat technology demonstrator for NASA in 2022 flying a laser communications terminal designed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Fan Zhang is a Senior Research Associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab in the United States.
NOAA worked with three federally funded research and development centers—Aerospace Corp., Mitre, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory—along with NASA and the University of Texas on OADR development.
Lifson and Linares are affiliated with the Astrodynamics, space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.