Projects
![a photo of a small satellite in a studio](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-08/TROPICS.png?itok=cNzQ8JMF)
TROPICS
A constellation of small satellites is collecting rapidly refreshed weather data to advance studies of hurricane structure and intensity and improve forecasts.
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![Imagery from the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2019-06/earth-2.jpg?h=6c8fd2c3&itok=dG5CbUi_)
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Series
The Laboratory's long-term collaboration with NOAA and NASA on environmental monitoring satellites has led to revolutionized weather imagery and products and improved detection for space and solar phenomena.
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![Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar at night](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-10/442971-340D.jpg?itok=J79ovyKl)
Haystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar
Lincoln Laboratory created the world's highest-resolution radar for imaging of space objects in support of space situational awareness.
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![For installation aboard a launch vehicle, a space telescope using technology developed for DISCIT will fold up into the compact shape seen at the left, but will expand its segmented sparse subapertures, right, once deployed.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-05/DISCIT-new.png?h=b65fab28&itok=9V6nZwY8)
Deployable In-Space Coherent Imaging Telescope
Technologies enabling the deployment of an expandable telescope from a small spacecraft could pave the way for the development of other payloads for small satellites.
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![The MASIVS sensor uses four focal planes.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-05/AR12_ISR_MASIVS_IMG_3455-rgb-foot-removed.jpg?h=a2f1c2b3&itok=1o1Uznoj)
Multi-Aperture Sparse Imager Video System
An airborne system provides high-resolution wide-area video imagery and onboard data processing to enable real-time monitoring of suspicious human activity.
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![The SST awaits nightfall to be tasked with scanning space from its location atop the Atom Site, a high-altitude observation point in New Mexico that provides a view of the sky that is virtually untouched by light pollution.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/SST.jpg?h=f2221fcc&itok=9b1wHMNb)
Space Surveillance Telescope
A unique curved focal surface enables a highly sensitive telescope capable of surveying broad swaths of deep space to detect the faintest objects in the night sky.
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![Ray tracing that simulates wave propagation is used to build performance models for high-frequency radar and communication systems.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/SpaceWx-1.png?h=801a2b6e&itok=DVLhoFdq)
Applied Space Weather
New algorithms improve the resilience of satellite and RF systems to impacts from space weather.
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![TESS's cameras, which will monitor planets passing in front of stars, were designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory engineers. Illustration: Chester Beals](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/AR13_TESS_Earth2.png?h=e75ab034&itok=J2IBwr34)
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
A new planet hunter will spend the next two years searching for exoplanets, including those that could support life.
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![Optical sensors, such as the Space Surveillance Telescope, collect data that are processed by analysts at Air Force sites who use OPAL to provide detections of space objects.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/AR11_SST_oscura_cropv2.jpg?h=0b07471d&itok=l3sX_umV)
Optical Processing Architecture at Lincoln
Our researchers developed a software architecture that allows analysts to rapidly run algorithms on the volumes of sensor data collected about space objects.
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![Space Tactics Interns learn the operations of the high-power Millstone Hill radar that tracks space vehicles and space debris.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/Millstone_501498-209D.jpg?h=6363fe9a&itok=fIaE-Jjs)
14th Air Force Detachment — Space Tactics Internship
A program created by the Air Force Space Command and Lincoln Laboratory gives participants experience with advanced systems and processes for managing space operations.
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