Two proposals from AeroAstro have won funding from NASA to continue research in space sustainability. Congratulations to Afreen Siddiqi (ESL), Prof. Richard Linares @AstrodymanicMIT, Prof. Dan Hastings, and Prof. Danielle Wood Danielle Wood! nasa.gov/organizations/…

Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan has been appointed associate dean of the MIT School of Engineering. Her new leadership role will focus on efforts to attract, retain, and support top talent across all academic levels. DINaMo Group, MIT ow.ly/HuzJ50SSceg

A #BackToSchool lesson from the International Space Station! 🔬 In this STEMonstration, NASA Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli explains how research on cells in microgravity help us better understand the human body and solve biomedical problems that occur on Earth. Learn more: nasa.gov/stem-content/s…

Hamsa Balakrishnan, the William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor in MIT AeroAstro, has been appointed associate dean of the MIT School of Engineering effective Aug. 1. news.mit.edu/2024/hamsa-bal…

What does a century of aeronautical engineering look like? Meet Quentin Wald, SB ‘41 SM ‘60: Course 16’s centenarian alum. In an oral history, Wald shares a look back on his time as an MIT student, his career, and a life of adventure: ow.ly/UVM350SWV5R

Möller (MIT AeroAstro), Fan (University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau), Futral, Andrew Lovering (UO Human Physiology), Hodgman (HHP at UH) and Kayser Bengt (UNIL Sport Sciences) compare the cardiopulmonary haemodynamics in Tibetans and Han Chinese during rest and exercise! 📜buff.ly/3X4g5bz.

The Aerospace Control Lab & Robust Robotics Group introduce EVORA: deep evidential traversability learning for risk-aware off-road autonomy. This system helps robots predict surface traction, manage uncertainties, and plan safer routes. ow.ly/fLMH50SYNPi

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"Good partners are well in tune with the beliefs and goals of each other, and our work on epistemic planning strives to capture this style of reasoning," explains senior author and AeroAstro prof. Brian Williams. ow.ly/24uT50T3fI8

Watch: MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative's sixth microgravity flight was “a parabolic roller coaster into the future of space and lunar exploration,” with 15 projects that ranged from designs to improve health and safety in space flight to experiments on the use of VR in remote exploration of the

Congratulations to the MIT First Nations Launch team for winning the Grand Prize at the 2024 NASA First Nations Launch! The all-Indigenous team’s rocket carried a payload that deployed mid-air and safely returned, integrating Indigenous methodologies. ow.ly/sENs50T6yiC

The paper describes a system for high-speed aerial grasping obtained by combining drones, soft robotics, and advanced 3D perception. We can grasp objects at up to 2m/s using only onboard vision and can even grasp objects from mobile platforms. youtu.be/HF4M7TooqfE [2/n]

How does a quick flight from Manassas to downtown Manhattan sound? Founded by John Langford PhD ‘87, Electra.aero is a next-gen aircraft company with a mission to open new air transportation markets and help decarbonize aviation. ow.ly/zM1K50T7wQo

The Engineering Systems Lab launched their PEARL autonomous marine vehicle project from the MIT Sailing Pavilion, completing a mission to demonstrate its water quality monitoring capabilities in small and coastal water bodies. #marinerobotics ow.ly/Su2n50TabQP

🎉Enormous congratulations to Sara Seager and David Charbonneau on the very well-deserved The Kavli Prize! What an honor to be here to witness. 🎉

As part of the Media Lab’s collaboration with Castrol, researchers with @explorespace_ML recently tested AstroAnt in the rugged environment of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. One of these miniaturized robots will soon be deployed on the #IM2 lunar mission—but first, these

First day of classes Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MIT AeroAstro!! ✨🚀

Congrats to Sara Seager on receiving the 2024 #KavliPrize in Astrophysics! She & Harvard’s David Charbonneau were honored this for their work on exoplanets and their atmospheres with an award presented by His Majesty King Harald V during Kavli Prize Week in Norway.

very cool! IEEE Spectrum featured our soft drone in the Video Friday section: spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-r… -- enjoy many cool robotics videos! full paper: nature.com/articles/s4418…

With support from the Arthur Gelb (1961) Fellowship, Allan Shtofenmakher is helping keep the cosmos clean. He aims to prevent collisions of space junk orbiting Earth at speeds 10 times faster than a bullet. ow.ly/ykEG50Thzc8