MIT AeroAstro@MITAeroAstro

MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. We look ahead by looking up. ✈️🚀🛰🤖🌎

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Joined May 2009
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During the AI and Society Forum, @MITAeroAstro and @MITPSTS professor @davidmindell discussed some of the possible implications of human and AI interaction on the workforce.
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Experimental investigation of a dual-spar floating offshore wind farm with a shared mooring line Engineering Structures, Volume 362, 1 September 2026, 122868 doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.… @ETSIN_Oficial @La_UPM @intaespana @cehinav @MITAeroAstro @caminosupm
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A team, including researchers in @MITAeroAstro, has conducted a study that highlights the need for a multiobservational approach in developing contrail identification and avoidance systems, necessary for reducing aviation’s climate impact. news.mit.edu/2025/study-obse…

Study: More eyes on the skies will help planes reduce climate-warming contrails

Researchers typically analyze images taken by geostationary satellites to identify regions of the sky where contrails form, but new research shows adding images taken by low-Earth-orbiting satellites...

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Meet new @MITAeroAstro faculty member, Professor Masha Folk! Her research focuses on sustainable aerospace technology driven by a deep desire to accelerate carbon-neutral aviation. #NewFacultyFriday news.mit.edu/2025/school-eng…
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MIT LIDS@MITLIDS
14 Nov 2025
Teaching robots to map large environments 🤖🗺️LIDS student Dominic Maggio, postdoc Hyungtae Lim, and PI @lucacarlone1 have developed a new #AI-driven mapping approach that could help search-and-rescue robots navigate unpredictable, cluttered environments. bit.ly/43xqnUG
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Chloe Gentgen, a PhD student in @MITAeroAstro, co-authored a recent study from the Engineering Systems Lab, finding that @SpaceX’s Starship may enable a flagship mission to Uranus in half the flight time. news.mit.edu/2025/3-question…

3 Questions: How a new mission to Uranus could be just around the corner

A new study from MIT researchers finds that with on-orbit refueling, SpaceX's Starship rocket could get a flagship mission to Uranus in half the time of a Falcon Heavy launch.

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MIT Media Lab
@medialab
3 Nov 2025
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). media.mit.edu/posts/media-la…
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31 Oct 2025
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 more at media.mit.edu/posts/zero-rob…
Promotional graphic for the Zero Robotics Galactic Greenhouse High School 2026 competition. The graphic shows two small cube-shaped space robots floating in front of the International Space Station, each topped with a green sprout. Large text reads: ZERO ROBOTICS, GALACTIC GREENHOUSE, HIGH SCHOOL 2026. At the bottom, bright green text reads: REGISTRATION OPEN!

ALT Promotional graphic for the Zero Robotics Galactic Greenhouse High School 2026 competition. The graphic shows two small cube-shaped space robots floating in front of the International Space Station, each topped with a green sprout. Large text reads: ZERO ROBOTICS, GALACTIC GREENHOUSE, HIGH SCHOOL 2026. At the bottom, bright green text reads: REGISTRATION OPEN!

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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. bit.ly/MITAmazonAIFellows
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MIT LIDS@MITLIDS
17 Oct 2025
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. bit.ly/4nZyv8H
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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: nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-s…
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MIT Media Lab
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26 Aug 2025
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. rdcu.be/eCt9c
Professor Danielle Wood crouches in front of a large yellow excavator on muddy ground surrounded by lush greenery in Ghana. She wears a patterned shirt, blue pants, and boots, looking directly at the camera. The scene highlights deforestation and land disturbance caused by mining. Credit: Doug Segars

ALT Professor Danielle Wood crouches in front of a large yellow excavator on muddy ground surrounded by lush greenery in Ghana. She wears a patterned shirt, blue pants, and boots, looking directly at the camera. The scene highlights deforestation and land disturbance caused by mining. Credit: Doug Segars

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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. news.mit.edu/2025/new-tool-g…

New tool gives anyone the ability to train a robot

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. news.mit.edu/2025/supporting…

Supporting mission-driven space innovation, for Earth and beyond

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. news.mit.edu/2025/planets-wi…

Planets without water could still produce certain liquids, a new study finds

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. news.mit.edu/2025/youssef-ma…

Youssef Marzouk appointed associate dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

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. news.mit.edu/2025/mix-helps-…

MIx helps innovators tackle challenges in national security

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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2 Aug 2025
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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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. news.mit.edu/2025/tenured-en…

The tenured engineers of 2025

Eleven MIT engineering faculty members have been granted tenure in MIT’s School of Engineering for 2025.

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MIT LIDS@MITLIDS
18 Jul 2025
🧠💻 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 bit.ly/4eX7XRL
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