Technology in Support of National Security

Monthly News & Updates

may2024

Newsletter Highlights

ILLUMA-T launches to the International Space Station

On November 9, a Lincoln Laboratory-developed laser communications terminal integrated on a NASA-built payload was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle. Cameras inside the launch vehicle enabled the Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center team to watch as the payload headed for the International Space Station (ISS), a football-field-sized research platform orbiting Earth about 250 miles above its surface, an altitude known as low Earth orbit (LEO).

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Join the FLC and MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a five-part series to learn more about the state-of-the-art research and advancements coming out of MIT Lincoln Laboratory facilities! 



Schedule of events: Explore Lincoln Laboratory Facilities: Microelectronics Laboratory

April 30, 2024


Explore Lincoln Laboratory Facilities: STRIVE Center 

May 21, 2024



Explore Lincoln Laboratory Facilities: Optical Terminal Verification Testbed (OTVT) 

June 25, 2024


Explore Lincoln Laboratory Facilities: RF Systems Test Facility 

July 23, 2024


Explore Lincoln Laboratory Facilities: Autonomous Systems Development Facility (ASDF) 

August 21, 2024


Visit the NEW TVO Website!



Did You Know...

In 1952 Lincoln Laboratory developed the NOMAC (noise modulation and correlation) system to conduct jam-resistant high-frequency communications. In the NOMAC system, transmitted signals were generated with the aid of noise modulation (adding “noise” to the signal); received signals were decoded by means of a correlation technique. Since a method for producing jam-resistant communications is to hide the carrier signal, NOMAC hid the carrier signal with a pseudonoise pattern that was provided only to the intended decoding receiver. This work was vital to maintaining military communications in the face of enemy jamming.

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