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Using satellites to monitor deforestation due to mining in Ghana

Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while indu…
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Decision Support System for Drought Response in Angola

This project seeks to improve the use of satellite-based Earth Observation as an input to a Drought Decision Support System to inform the r…
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Humans, Robots, Space, and the Future of Connectedness

Humans, Robots, Space, and the Future of ConnectednessWhat is the future of the human connection to each other, to machinery, to the univer…
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Braided Cosmopoetics: The Khasi cosmo-vison for an ethical space exploration

The Khasi people trace their ancestry back to the stars. Hailing from the Northeastern state of Meghalaya in India, the Khasis are famous f…
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Zero Robotics

Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
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Satellite Data for Environmental Justice

Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…
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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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Invisible Variables: Personal Security Among Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is seeking participants for a paid study on the impacts of social distancing policies…
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Antiracism & Technology Design Research Seminar Series

The Antiracism & Technology Design Research Seminar Series hosts speakers from around the world who center issues of race, intersection…
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Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…
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Vida Decision Support System for COVID-19

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University (…
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Low-cost invasive species management in coastal ecosystems: A case study in Benin

All over Africa, experts use satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for applications such as monitoring crop health or assessing the risk of…
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Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology Framework

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
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Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgra…
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Earthrise | A 50 Year Contemplation

In December of 1968, the first human voyage to the moon catapulted the population of Earth into a new era of space exploration and self-ref…
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Design for a citizen science and public engagement project celebrating Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Antarctica is a unique and beautiful continent that is key to the global ecosystem and climate. Research based in Antarctica is helping sci…
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Regional Technology Co-Creation and Transfer Ecosystems in Latin America

🚨Application to the 2022 Co-Design Experience here bit.ly/codesign2022 🚨Historically, technology transfer has been associate…