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A study of emerging space nation and commercial satellite operator stakeholder preferences for space traffic management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The near-Earth space environment is a finite, shared resource. Trends including reduced launch costs, electronics miniaturization, and preference for resilient, disaggregated architectures are driving significant growth ...
The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana
(Elsevier BV, 2021)
Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while industrial mining is prevalent in the country, the expansion of artisanal mining, or ...
Incentivizing Collaboration on Space Sustainability: Detectability, Identifiability, and Trackability of Space Missions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
The world has increasingly come to rely on satellites to provide services such as navigation, global communications, banking, national security, and weather forecasting. However, as satellites are launched into space at ...
TagAlong: Informal Learning from a Remote Companion with Mobile Perspective Sharing
(12th International Conference on Cognition and
Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2015 (CELDA), 2015-10)
Questions often arise spontaneously in a curious mind, due to an observation about a new or unknown environment. When an expert is right there, prepared to engage in dialog, this curiosity can be harnessed and converted ...
Building technological capability within satellite programs in developing countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Global participation in space activity is growing as satellite technology matures and spreads. Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are creating or reinvigorating national satellite programs. These countries are ...
Mediating the Marginal: A Computational Analysis of Representational Hierarchies, Aesthetic Tourism, and Queer Imagination on Instagram
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Images are world-building technologies, engendering futurity through collective imagination. An ontological trace of visual culture positions media technologies as sites of both regulation of and resistance to racial, ...
Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms
(2021-06-07)
The importance of swarm robotics systems in both academic research and real-world applications is steadily increasing. However, to reach widespread adoption, new models that ensure the secure cooperation of large groups ...
Leveraging microgravity to investigate earth- And space-based centrifugal casting of wax
(International Astronautical Federation, 2020-01)
A multi-year research effort aimed at increasing understanding of the centrifugal casting process of wax fuels for hybrid chemical propulsion in multiple thermal and gravitational environments is described. As both radiative ...
Centrifugal Casting of Paraffin and Beeswax for Hybrid Rockets
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2020-08)
© 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. A high-level research framework is presented which seeks to navigate the barriers associated with reusing wax phase change material ...
The use of satellite-based technology in developing countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Satellite technology in the areas of remote sensing, communication, and navigation can provide valuable information in a number of areas from business to disaster management to agriculture. There is great potential for ...