AeroAstro PhD student Miles Lifson and Prof. Richard Linares suggest a four-step approach to managing Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as the active satellite population grows exponentially. Read: aeroastro.mit.edu/news-impact/li… MIT ARCLab

Researchers release open-source space debris model spacedaily.com/reports/Resear…

Congratulations to ARCLab PhD candidate Julia Briden for earning the Best Graduate Student Paper in Guidance Navigation and Control at this year's AIAA SciTech Forum! Way to go, Julia! 🎉

Julia Briden wins Best Paper Award in the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Graduate Student Paper Competition aeroastro.mit.edu/news-impact/ju…

The MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool (MOCAT) developed by MIT ARCLab researchers was featured in this month's Infinite newsletter from the Dean of MIT School of Engineering. Read more here: mit.imodules.com/controls/email…

Astrodynamics can take you all around the world! Learn more about the work that took ARCLab students to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in MIT AeroAstro's latest news highlight: aeroastro.mit.edu/news-impact/ar… CC: MISTI 🇮🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧

The MIT WORMS team demonstrated their full-scale hexapod prototype at the 2024 Amazon MARS conference. The demonstration showcased the field-reconfigurability of their full-scale hexapod prototype. Watch the video: ow.ly/I3EN50R2rk1

It's a big day at ARCLab: *Two* PhD candidates are defending their theses! At 10 am: "Measuring Compliance to the Int’l Telecommunication Union’s Geosynchronous Orbital Assignments," by Thomas González Roberts At 3 pm: "Modeling the Future Space Debris Population and Orbital Capacity," by Daniel Jang 🛰️🎉

If you are at all interested understanding ITU satellite slots in GEO, this new ITU-Compliance-Assessment-Monitor that Thomas González Roberts built as part of his PhD work is an outstanding tool:github.com/ThomasGRoberts…

Could satellite operators use large language models to control their spacecraft? As part of an international team, ARCLab researchers developed software to test this idea on the simulated space environment in Kerbal Space Program. Read their pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/2404.00413

Julia Briden Now, Adriana is moderating a panel discussion called “From Pixels to Planets: The AI Imaging Frontier.” Tune in to watch live!

Prof. Julie Shah has been named the new AeroAstro Department Head. An expert in robotics and AI and a 20-year member of the AeroAstro community, Shah succeeds Prof. Steven Barrett effective May 1. news.mit.edu/2024/julie-sha…

Want to know what it's like to study astrodynamics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)? Listen in on a public seminar by post-doc Giovanni Lavezzi (who teaches the grad-level astrodynamics class at MIT AeroAstro!) and guests Riccardo Cipollone and Andrea De Vittori from Politecnico di Milano on Thursday at 11 am ET. 👇

ARCLab made it to the cover of MIT's Corridor newsletter! Check out the write-up of the lab's work, featuring lab director Prof. Richard Linares, Dr. Miles Lifson, Dr. Thomas González Roberts, and PhD candidate Adriana Mitchell. giving.mit.edu/planned-giving…

ARCLab researchers have improved their Monte-Carlo model for studying the long-term evolution of the space environment. The latest version can run new scenarios that predict *millions* of trackable objects over a 200-year period! Read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2405.10430

Congratulations to our soon-to-be ARCLab SM graduates—@SpaceForceDoD Capt Tory Smith and Lt Grant Appel—on submitting their masters theses! #AdAstra 🎓✨

Last month's geomagnetic storm was the largest in over 20 years! ARCLab researchers analyzed satellite behavior during the storm to better understand how these events impact operations in LEO. Learn more here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.08617

Collision avoidance technologies need beefing up to ensure #satellite safety in solar storms, says research from MIT ARCLab's Prof. Richard Linares and William Parker in Discover Magazine. ow.ly/PTMf50Ss1KU

I am thrilled to share that NASA has selected our team to study orbital debris and space sustainability. I am excited to work on this project with Profs. Danielle Wood (Danielle Wood ) and Daniel Hastings. nasa.gov/organizations/…

PhD student William Parker’s research was featured in SpaceNews this week, exploring the impact of this year’s geomagnetic storms that led to unprecedented “mass migrations” of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit. spacenews.com/geomagnetic-st…