Content by Ariana Tantillo
Surface-Based Sonar System Rapidly Maps Ocean Floor at High ResolutionA small fleet of autonomous surface vessels forms a large sonar array for finding submerged objects
Thu, 01/23/2025 - 00:03
On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible was about 90 minutes into its two-hour descent to the Titanic wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when it lost contact with its support ship. This break in communication set off a frantic search for…
Communications System Achieves Fastest Laser Link From Space YetData sent from satellite to Earth at 100 Gbps, a rate that will transform future science missions
Wed, 12/21/2022 - 11:59
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth’s surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data at record-breaking rates…
Writing Code for a More Skilled and Diverse STEM WorkforceMost undergraduates don’t have the computational capabilities demanded by employers
Thu, 11/29/2018 - 12:02
The ability to program computers is crucial to almost all modern scientific experiments, which often involve extremely complex calculations and massive amounts of data. However, scientists typically have not been formally trained in science-specific…
Radar and Communications System Extends Signal Range at Millimeter-wave FrequenciesThe system will support US Army missions
Thu, 05/08/2025 - 12:28
A team from MIT Lincoln Laboratory has built and demonstrated the wideband selective propagation radar (WiSPR), a system capable of seeing out various distances at millimeter-wave (mmWave or MMW) frequencies. Typically, these high frequencies, which…