SPHERES Overview
SPHERES Overview
The MIT Space Systems Laboratory developed the SPHERES laboratory environment to provide DARPA, NASA, and other researchers with a long term, replenishable, and upgradable testbed for the validation of high risk metrology, control, and autonomy technologies for use in formation flight and ...
Spheres Challenge High School Finals 2011
Spheres Challenge High School Finals 2011
A short summary video of the Spheres Challenge 2011 finals live from the International Space Station on January 23, 2012.Read more about the 2011 Challenge: http://zerorobotics.mit.edu/index.php/zr2011
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 1)
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 1)
Recorded on 1/23/12
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 3)
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 3)
Recorded on 1/23/12
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 2)
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 2)
Recorded on 1/23/12
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition Awards
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition Awards
Recorded on 1/23/12
SPHERES on the Space Station
SPHERES on the Space Station
MIT AeroAstro Space Systems Lab's SPHERES microsatellites are tested on the International Space Station.
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 4)
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition (Part 4)
Recorded on 1/23/12
Zero Robotics/SPHERES
Zero Robotics/SPHERES
With the help of AeroAstro's Space Systems Lab, the SPHERES Zero Robotics pilot program allowed two high schools to run a software competition aboard the International Space Station.
SPHERES: A Space Odyssey (aboard the ISS)
SPHERES: A Space Odyssey (aboard the ISS)
On 2009-08-15 the MIT SPHERES Team held is 18th Test Session with astronauts Michael Barratt and Timothy Kopra operating our satellites aboard the International Space Station. The SPHERES program (http://ssl.mit.edu/spheres) operates nano-satellites aboard the ISS in ...
Spheres - Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-orient ...
Spheres - Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-orient Experimental ...
In spring 2000, 13 graduating MIT seniors developed and tested three mini-satellites that could lead the way to similar devices that fly in formation, much like Thunderbirds in an Air Force show. The range of potential applications includes a space telescope more ...
Student Presentation #5
Student Presentation #5
Like all research, we start with a problem, question, or hypothesis. In this presentation, six graduate students aim to discuss the connections between the dividing beta family of stable homotopic spheres and the congruences of q-expansion of modular forms. In simple terms, think of ...
Unlocking Energy Innovation :: Richard K. Lester
Unlocking Energy Innovation :: Richard K. Lester
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, ...
Zero Robotics "Summer of Innovation 2010"
Zero Robotics "Summer of Innovation 2010"
Zero Robotics is a robotics programming tournament for students, where the robots are autonomous nanosatellites called SPHERES, developed by MIT SSL. Students can write programs to control the satellites from a web browser and final competition is aboard the ...
Starr Forum: Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
Starr Forum: Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
The bottom-line mentality that swept American life in the last few decades, often overriding considerations of principle and professionalism in business, politics, the arts, higher education, journalism and other spheres, left its mark on philanthropy and the ...
Open Park
Open Park
The Open Park project looks to define an 'ideal' or at least improved model and practice for online collaborative news-reporting and -writing. As newsrooms across the country and beyond are grappling with the new economic realities of reduced budgets and news media professionals are busy ...
Antoni Muntadas - Public City
Antoni Muntadas - Public City
October 19, 2009. Artist Muntadas investigates notions of 'City' and 'public.' Is there still a public space? Is the city a place for interventions? City authorities and the private sector provide surveillance and control. Yet it is the city dwellers who should make critical decisions over the ...
Navigating the Future
Navigating the Future
10/02/2003 11:30 AM 8-404Philip Condit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; The Boeing CompanyDescription: While he won't provide a definitive answer about Boeing's plans to manufacture a 787 airliner, Phil Condit does make some stark predictions about the future. The current information ...