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• MIT built a ring of copper wire around Earth in 1963, and more than 20 clumps of it are still in orbit SpaceDaily · 8 Oct 2026 The loose copper hairs of Project West Ford fell back within a few years. The clumps that never came apart are another story: two public satellite catalogues still list about three dozen in orbit.
• NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge NASA · 28 Aug 2026 NASA named a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first prize winner for Phase 2 of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, which focused on developing solutions for reducing waste during missions...
• Quantum camera startup plans satellite and telescope constellations SpaceDaily · 14 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Diffraqtion, a space startup spun out of MIT and the University of Maryland, has closed a pre-seed funding round to advance satellite constellations and telescope systems powered by a no...
• Fueling research in nuclear thermal propulsion SpaceDaily · 14 Jan 2026 by Poornima Apte for MIT News Boston MA (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Going to the moon was one thing; going to Mars will be quite another. The distance alone is intimidating. While the moon is 238,855 miles away, the distance to M...
• Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors SpaceDaily · 1 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 A University of Cincinnati physicist and collaborators from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory MIT and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a theoretical framework s...
• "Robot, make me a chair" robot-make-me-a-chair-in-six-prompts SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many too...
• MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee SpaceDaily · 10 Dec 2025 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit th...
• NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier NASA · 6 Aug 2025 As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kickin...
• NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt NASA · 20 Dec 2024 NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb...
• MIT professor: Interest in space careers at an all-time high SpaceNews · 28 Sep 2021 MIT’s Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics graduate admissions program this past year saw a record number of applicants, most of whom want to work in the space business.