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![A map of the United States with areas colored on a scale from yellow to dark red, indicating drought severity.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-03/Drought-map.png?itok=FzV1TKVT)
Artificial Intelligence–Based Drought Prediction
We are developing a neural network using data derived from satellite measurements of temperature and humidity to improve drought monitoring and forecasting.
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![An illustration of data being sent across a laser from a small satellite to a ground station on Earth.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2022-11/tbird_conops_public_notext.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=FFp50AcU)
TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD)
The laser communications payload has delivered terabytes of data from a satellite to Earth at record-breaking rates that will transform future science missions.
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![a photo of a small satellite in a studio](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-08/TROPICS.png?h=5463d0de&itok=1Rk-6x3n)
TROPICS
A constellation of small satellites is collecting rapidly refreshed weather data to advance studies of hurricane structure and intensity and improve forecasts.
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![A rendition of a communications payload on its spacecraft host, with laser links over the Earth connecting Hawaii and California.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-06/LCRD%20schematic.png?itok=e8EDbJG0)
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
Optical communications technologies decades in the making at Lincoln Laboratory were transferred to NASA for its first two-way laser relay communications system.
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![TESS's cameras, which will monitor planets passing in front of stars, were designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory engineers. Illustration: Chester Beals](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/AR13_TESS_Earth2.png?h=e75ab034&itok=MzzwiO3a)
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
A new planet hunter will spend the next two years searching for exoplanets, including those that could support life.
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![The International Space Station will be outfitted with our ILLUMA-T laser terminal to provide optical communications.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/323070main_s119e009662_hires.jpg?h=3ced22da&itok=R0xQ3YVh)
![This illustration shows OSIRIS-REx contacting the asteroid Bennu. Aboard OSIRIS-REx is the REXIS instrument, for which the Laboratory developed CCDs that will image X-rays emitting from Bennu's surface. Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/OSIRIS-REX.jpg?h=f8d5414b&itok=-jteZZMe)
Charge-Coupled Devices for REXIS on OSIRIS-REx
Our CCDs will image X-rays emitting from elements on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.
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