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In the Media
September 13, 2021
![Six small satllite buses (about size of loaf of bread) are photographed against a white background.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2021-06/Science_BCT_SV_Family_Photo_20191114%20copy.jpg?itok=fRMrnrZS)
![NASA will use telescope arrays at Table Mountain, Calif., and White Sands, N.M. to send and receive signals to Orion’s optical communications system. Photo: Robert Lafon / NASA](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2019-07/MzMyODE5NA.jpeg?itok=PXYVyRBv)
![NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets in the data from the space telescope’s four cameras. Photo: NASA/MIT/TESS](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2019-02/1542_TESS_planets.jpg?itok=vJpY4q-8)
In the Media
February 13, 2019
![MIT graduate students Pronoy Biswas (left) and Mark Chodas (right) prepare the REXIS instrument for flight. Photo: William Litant/MIT](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2019-01/MIT-3Q-Rexis-1_0.jpg?h=0ee9fadf&itok=hhEEPDdH)
January 17, 2019
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![Captured image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and bright star R.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2018-09/tess_first_light-tb.jpg?h=da9f67e7&itok=6DoRac9_)
In the Media
September 17, 2018
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory is open.
Hanscom Air Force Base has declared Force Protection Condition Bravo.