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MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. We look ahead by looking up. ✈️🚀🛰🤖🌎
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Joined May 2009
Media Lab Prof. Danielle Wood (@space_enabled) and alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (@jovialjoy) are among the MIT community members featured in The Genius Within, a new public art installation in Kendall Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts). https://t.co/u0fvrNdWCr
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This winter, Zero Robotics—an education outreach program led by Prof. Danielle Wood, @space_enabled, and the Innovation Learning Center—invites teams of US high school students to program Astrobee robots to manage crops in microgravity! Team registration closes Nov. 21. Learn
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Prophecy alert: The enemy seeks to derail global shifts and silence God’s justice. Hear Amanda Grace’s full message now
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Nine MIT PhD students have been named Amazon AI Fellows to advance research in machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing. The fellowship will provide students with funding to conduct independent research at MIT and mentorship. https://t.co/yJtbIgWn0W
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Improving the reliability of fusion power plants. LIDS PI Chuchu Fan, grad student Oswin So, and colleagues have developed a prediction model that uses physics and machine learning to help tokamak reactors avoid damaging disruptions when powering down. https://t.co/1og7KC4Y3B
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Congrats to AeroAstro alum Major Adam Fuhrmann (SB’11) on being selected as one of NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidates! Adam is one of 10 new candidates chosen from a pool of over 8,000 applicants from across the US. Read NASA’s full announcement here: https://t.co/x9MvYRHNXx
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FII9: A Lesson for Optimism. Watch the defining moments from the 3-day conference in Riyadh, where global leaders and industry pioneers came together to unlock the next frontier of growth for humanity with the Key To Prosperity. Watch full sessions and exclusive insights now on
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In @Nature, Prof. @space_enabled makes the case for continuing to support NASA’s Earth-observation satellite programs, which are vital to understanding and protecting the environment. https://t.co/c9OFvxKClg
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A team, including researchers from @MITAeroAstro, is designing robotic helpers that can learn from demonstration through a three-in-one training interface that enables a person to lead a robot through a task through any of three training methods. https://t.co/k8c0QaQF6I
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A new training interface allows a robot to learn a task in several different ways. This increased training flexibility could help more people interact with and teach robots — and may also enable...
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Aurelia Institute, founded by a team from MIT including former @MITAeroAstro students, serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry, with a mission of making space accessible to all people. https://t.co/BsYryypwbX
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At the heart of the Aurelia Institute’s mission is a commitment to making space accessible to all people. Founded by MIT alumna Ariel Ekblaw and others, the nonprofit serves as a research lab, an...
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Planets without water could still produce certain liquids, new experiments have found. These “ionic liquids” can form through common planetary processes and might be capable of supporting life even on waterless planets.
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New research by MIT scientists raises the possibility that a so-called ionic liquid could support life in worlds without water. Lab experiments show that ionic liquids can form from chemical ingred...
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As the new associate dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, @MITAeroAstro Prof. Youssef Marzouk will work to foster a stronger community among bilingual computing faculty across MIT. https://t.co/X2t6hWBCI8
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Youssef Marzouk, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and outgoing co-director of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering, will play a vital role in fostering community for...
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A group of faculty, including @MITAeroAstro professor and LIDS director Sertac Karaman, founded MIT’s Mission Innovation X (MIx) to help innovators secure crucial early funding while giving defense agencies access to cutting-edge technologies. https://t.co/n1JbAIkeFZ
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Mission Innovation x (MIx) at MIT helps innovators secure early funding while giving defense agencies access to the most cutting-edge technologies available, boosting America’s security capabilities...
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Work led by @JasonJChoi1 @jasminejerrya Jingqi Li, Maria Gabriela Mendoza, Hamsa Balakrishnan and Claire Tomlin from @MITAeroAstro @MIT and @UCBerkeley @Berkeley_EECS
#safety #collisionavoidance #marl #multiagentsystems #reinforcementlearning #CBFs
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Six hours. That’s all it took for a small business to get slammed with a 50% tariff. Elana Woldenberg Ruffman, VP of Marketing and Product Development at @hand2mind, shares how “emergency” tariffs forced her team to sprint across continents to make a children’s toy—only to be
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MIT granted tenure to 11 faculty members across the School of Engineering, in the departments of @MITAeroAstro, @MITdeptofBE, @MITChemE, @MITEECS, @MIT_DMSE, @MITMechE, and @MIT_NSE. https://t.co/4y5kn0Rjl6
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Eleven MIT engineering faculty members have been granted tenure in MIT’s School of Engineering for 2025.
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🧠💻 New “smart coach” boosts AI’s problem-solving superpowers! CodeSteer, a smart assistant from Chuchu Fan, @YongchaoC, et al, guides LLMs on when to use text reasoning & when to switch to writing code, boosting LLM accuracy when solving complex problems https://t.co/0k3VI3UrWu
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A team of researchers, including members of @MITAeroAstro and LIDS, is developing a system for predicting rare kinds of failures, which could be used in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles. https://t.co/UlMDBw3tca
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When the IM-2 lunar mission landed on the surface of the moon in March, it was in an off-nominal position (on its side). In @SpaceNews_Inc, senior writer @jeff_foust looks at how the companies, organizations, and researchers who had payloads on the mission made the most of the
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You can try online courses from @MITEngineering — ranked @usnews' #1 grad engineering program! Explore: 🚀 @MITAeroAstro 🦠 Biomed engineering ⚗️ @MITChemE 💻 @MITEECS 🔎 @mit_dmse ⚙️ @MITMechE ⚛️ @mit_nse Start learning: https://t.co/U9kr4gxUZx
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How do scientists find planets in galaxies far, far away? 🪐 Find out:
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In a new paper published in Acta Astronautica, Media Lab Research Engineer Minoo Rathnasabapathy, Prof. Danielle Wood (@space_enabled), and collaborators discuss the history, motivation, and design of the Space Sustainability Rating (SSR). Created in 2019, the SSR is an incentive
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