AeroAstro
The students, faculty and staff in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics share a passion for air and space vehicles, the technologies that enable them, and the missions they fulfill. Our environment is connected, busy, global, hectic, open, collegial ... and fun.
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STS-61 Mission Highlights
Added 5 months ago | 01:06:16 | 292 views
STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on 2 December 1993. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision, marred by spherical ab...
Introduction and Welcome
MVL 50th Anniversary Symposium
Added 9 months ago | 00:13:05 | 955 views
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Jaime Peraire, Head, Department AeroAstro
CubeSats: Tiny satellites work at M...
Added 1 year ago | 00:05:20 | 4296 views
A video reflection of work at MIT, U. Michigan, and other institutions on small satellites and the technology that will contribute to overcoming the challenges facing interplanetary CubeSat and iCubeSat missions. Produced for the first I...
Crash. Design. Rebuild: engineerin...
Added over 1 year ago | 00:02:12 | 3057 views
During 2012 IAP, AeroAstro undergrad students had seven days to redesign and fly radio controlled aircraft kits. The exercise developed initial competency in engineering design. Activities included hand sketching, CAD modeling, CAE...
Variable pitch quadrotors in the Ae...
Added over 1 year ago | 00:02:48 | 2445 views
Trajectory generation and control for a variable pitch quadrotor helicopter developed at MIT AeroAstro's Aerospace Controls Lab. The variable-pitch propellers allow for more aggressive maneuvers and aerobatics than possible with typical ...
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- Engineering
- Language
- English
- Website
- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (web.mit.edu/aeroastro)
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