Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

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

In one of the first significant scientific findings from the effort to detect gravitational waves, the team operating the Laser Interferometer Gravity-wave Observatory (LIGO) has reported that the pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula must have an extremely smooth surface. Here the Crab Nebula is shown in a composite image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Measuring a pulsar's smoothness

Team finds significant results from major collaboration

June 3, 2008

NASA selects MIT-led team to develop planet-searching satellite

June 3, 2008

Aero-astro goes to space

June 2, 2008

An aeronautics and astronautics project led by MIT researcher Chuck Oman aims to provide better training systems for astronauts to learn how to use robotic arms in space. At left, Joseph Silverman, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, tries his hand with the joysticks that control the robotic arm. At right is graduate student Zakiya Tomlinson, who is running the experiment.

MIT project seeks to arm robotic training with data

May 28, 2008

Who ya gonna call? Riskbuster!

Professor Nancy Leveson has developed unique approach to managing risky businesses

May 21, 2008

Airport diagram of Boston's Logan International Airport with Runway Intersection Lights, Takeoff Hold Lights, and Runway Entrance Lights (in red).

Logan to get Lincoln Lab-developed runway safety system

May 21, 2008

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

May 21, 2008

Record-breaking Daedalus project marks 20th anniversary

April 22, 2008

An artist's representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background.

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

March 19, 2008

'Four-winged dinosaur' soars in MIT wind tunnel

March 6, 2008

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