Aeronautical Engineering

Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, repairing the Hubble Telescope. Image: NASA

13-Year-Old Passes MITx Aerospace Engineering Course

Detecting Leaks with Robots, Wireless Sensors

Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Andrew Whittle are working to increase the world water supply by decreasing loss of water through leaks.

Isabel “Bel” Pesce Mattos ’10 is the founder of FazINOVA, a private business school in Brazil. Photo: Bel Pesce/MIT Alumni Association

Two School Foundings—63 Years Apart—Link MIT with Advances in Brazilian Education

The MIT COOP is the first major university bookstore to accept bitcoin payments. Photo: Dan Elitzer

MIT’s Bitcoin Experiment is Underway

Continuum

Space Probe Tweets its Historic Landing on Comet 67P

MIT professor Richard Binzel says near-Earth asteroids (NEA) are the perfect destination for testing equipment and systems that could ultimately be used to transport people to Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Near-Earth Asteroids: Stepping-Stones to Mars

Giant Steps: Celebrating 100 Years of Flight

This fall, MIT celebrates 100 years of achievements in aeronautics and astronautics and its amazing history of leadership to the nation and the world.

MIT Researchers Tell Airlines to Lighten Up

What makes cities so resilient after disaster? Larry Vale with post-Katrina New Orleans. Len Rubenstein

Resilient Places

San Francisco rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake while Warsaw rebuilt after World War 11. Larry Vale explains what makes cities so resilient.

Topics: Aeronautical Engineering