News & Impact

Students build and launch rockets in virtual reality as part of new course, “Intro to Satellite Engineering”

October 24, 2024

Categories: Academics, Graduate Students, Research, Earth & Space Sciences, Systems Design & Engineering

Fabrication time diagrams for in-space manufacturing of large reticulated structures

October 24, 2024

Categories: Research, Vehicle Design & Engineering

Prof. Eric Evans and the Defense Science Board visit the USS Nimitz

October 23, 2024

Categories: Engagement, Faculty

Near-zero environmental impact aircraft

October 21, 2024

Categories: Research, Vehicle Design & Engineering, Earth & Space Sciences, Systems Design & Engineering

A comparative study of the impact of virtual reality on student learning and satisfaction in aerospace education

October 18, 2024

Categories: Research, Earth & Space Sciences, Systems Design & Engineering

Niya Hope-Glenn calls astronaut Jeanette Epps on the ISS

October 17, 2024

Categories: Engagement, Graduate Students

ARCLab at AMOS 2024

October 16, 2024

Categories: Accolades, Graduate Students, Systems Design & Engineering

Prompt optimization in multi-step tasks (PROMST): Integrating human feedback and preference alignment

October 16, 2024

Categories: Research, Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making, Human-System Collaboration

Artificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration

October 8, 2024

Categories: Accolades, Faculty, Research, Transportation & Exploration, Vehicle Design & Engineering

In memoriam: Allan R. Shaw

October 4, 2024

Categories: Obituary

Stuck NASA astronauts welcome capsule that’ll bring them home next year: “If anyone can get it done, it’s the MIT astronauts.”

September 30, 2024

Categories: Alumni, Faculty, News Bytes

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter

September 30, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Graduate Students, Research

The political and legal landscape of space debris mitigation in emerging space nations

September 27, 2024

Categories: Research, Systems Design & Engineering

Multi-level action tree rollout (MLAT-R): Efficient and accurate online multiagent policy improvement