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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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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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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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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.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Jan 17, 2023U.S. delivers first of two space sensors to be hosted on Japanese satellites

The optical sensors were developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory under a 2019 agreement with the U.S. Air Force.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 17, 2023U.S. delivers first of two space sensors to be hosted on Japanese satellites

MIT Lincoln Laboratory developed the Space Surveillance Telescope more than 20 years ago with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

CapabilityGeneralGovernanceValue 4.2Sep 30, 2022Space surveillance telescope developed by the U.S. begins operations in Australia

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.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Sep 13, 2022Ball Aerospace selected for NASA’s Astrophysics study

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.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Aug 24, 2022NS-23 to Fly 36 Payloads and Tens of Thousands of Club for the Future Postcards to Space

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.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 2.0Aug 22, 2022SpaceLink partners with Parsons for DARPA’s inter-satellite communications project

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.

CapabilityGovernanceValue 4.0Aug 8, 2022NASA looking for new launch of remaining TROPICS cubesats

Tomorrow.io is working with MIT Lincoln Laboratory on a microwave sounder for its planned weather satellites.

RelationshipsPlanCapabilityValue 3.8Jul 20, 2022Spire adding microwave sounders to improve weather forecasts

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.

PlanCapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Jul 19, 2022ESA funds Skimsat demonstrator study for VLEO

PTD-3 carries the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jul 5, 2022Terran Orbital completes NASA Pathfinder Tech Demo 3 bus commissioning less than a week post launch

PTD-3 carries the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jun 30, 2022Terran Orbital Completes NASA Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 Bus Commissioning Less Than One Week After Launch

Ryo Ujiie received an M.S. degree in engineering and management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016.

GovernanceValue 1.2Jun 10, 2022ispace, inc. CEO Announces New Chief Technology Officer

Agile Microsat, or AMS, is a standardized 6U cubesat bus that Blue Canyon designed, built, and tested for MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.3Jun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

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.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jun 5, 2022Blue Canyon’s low-altitude smallsats thrive on-orbit after their launch via SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission

The TBIRD payload is funded by NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program and was developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

RelationshipsFinancialCapabilityValue 4.0May 25, 2022Terran Orbital Integrates Fleet Space, GeoOptics, And NASA Satellites Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Prior to Transporter-5 Launch

The TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload is funded by NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program and developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

FinancialRelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0May 23, 2022Terran Orbital Delivers The PTD-3 Satellite To Cape Canaveral SFS For Integration Into The SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission

Terran Orbital expects to deliver a 6U cubesat technology demonstrator for NASA in 2022 flying a laser communications terminal designed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

RelationshipsPlanCapabilityValue 4.2Mar 28, 2022Terran Orbital Begins Trading on the New York Stock Exchange Under Ticker Symbol “LLAP” and Announces Revenue Backlog Now Exceeds $200 million

Fan Zhang is a Senior Research Associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab in the United States.

GovernanceValue 1.3Feb 24, 2022Geospatial World reveals its list of 50 Rising Stars for year 2022

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.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Feb 12, 2022Office of Space Commerce rolls out prototype space catalog for traffic management

Lifson and Linares are affiliated with the Astrodynamics, space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

GovernanceValue 1.0Jan 4, 2022Op-ed | Is there enough room in space for tens of billions of satellites, as Elon Musk suggests? We don’t think so.
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