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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
Jan 10
#OTD January 10, 2010: @MITLL developed the high-power MARTI, which was launched and engaged by the Airborne Laser (ABL) system. In this photo, the project team performed final preparations on the instrumented MARTI rocket payload before flight testing. #MITLLHistory
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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
28 Jul 2025
MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s construction of the C-band ALCOR radar on Roi Namur Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. ALCOR was the first U.S. radar designed for imaging reentry vehicles and low-altitude satellites. #MITLLhistory
Large satellite dish antenna with a circular base and protective panels, surrounded by several workers performing maintenance or assembly tasks.

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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
23 May 2024
DYK: @MITLL developed a large-format charge-coupled device (CCD) imager to replace the outdated Ebsicon vacuum-tube cameras of the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep-Space Surveillance system that provided space-object identification on deep-space #satellites. #MITLLhistory
Photo of the large-format charge-coupled device (CCD) imager.

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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
7 Mar 2024
DYK: Judith Clapp became the only woman working on @MIT’s new, powerful Whirlwind computer. When Whirlwind was assigned to the SAGE project, she transferred to @MITLL in 1952 and became the only woman in the Laboratory’s Air Defense Group. #MITLLhistory #WomensHistoryMonth
B&W photo of Judith Clapp working on a keyboard.

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B&W portrait photo of Judith Clapp.

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Judith (Levenson) Clapp stands holding a printout in front of computer equipment.

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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
7 Apr 2023
DYK: From 1975-76, Arlene Maclin was a research physicist at @MITLL. Her work focused on determining the sensitivity of the GEODSS optical system by varying signal-to-noise ratios. #MITLLhistory #WomeninSTEM
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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
21 Mar 2023
DYK: Evelyn Murray-Lenthall was a technical staff member who worked on the design for the FAA’s Discrete Address Beacon System. By the end of 1972, she became a division assistant in the Air Traffic Control Division. #MITLLhistory #WomensHistoryMonth
Black and white image of Evelyn Murray with machine equipment.

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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
1 Mar 2023
In 1951, Rosaline Harman was the first woman staff member of Project Lincoln who also became the first woman to lead a service department group @MITLL, known then as Publications and Documents. #MITLLHistory #WomenHistoryMonth
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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
13 Feb 2023
In 1954, Inez Hazel was hired by @MITLL to work on programming for the Cape Cod System. Inez worked on a simulation program that studied the feasibility of tracking aircraft under electronic countermeasure conditions with azimuth information only. #MITLLhistory
Black and white image of Inez Hazel working at a desk and review various pages of paper.

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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
1 Feb 2023
💭 DYK: Dr. Wade M. Kornegay became the first African American division head of Radar Measurements @MITLL in 1986. Below is a 1969 photo of Kornegay as a Re-Entry Signature Studies staff member working with the Mass Spectrometer. #MITLLhistory ow.ly/OjoA50MGIp0
B&W portrait of Dr. Wade Kornegay

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B&W image of Dr. Wade Kornegay and an unidentified colleague working with the Mass Spectrometer.

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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
30 Jan 2023
📅 OTD: Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad thesis was published in @MITLL Technical Report 296. Sketchpad was the first graphical computer interface, making it possible for a person and a computer to converse rapidly through line drawings. ow.ly/AIIW50MAep7 #MITLLhistory
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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
25 Jan 2023
💭 DYK: The greatest breakthrough in the development of the Whirlwind computer was the invention of magnetic-core memory, a three-dimensional structure of small toroidal-shaped ferromagnetic cores that stored data. #MITLLhistory
Black and white photo of a person using a magnifying glass to view small toroidal-shaped ferromagnetic cores.

ALT Black and white photo of a person using a magnifying glass to view small toroidal-shaped ferromagnetic cores.

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Lincoln Laboratory@MITLL
10 Jan 2023
DYK: The military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) program began in 1963. Since then, @MITLL has continued to extend the capabilities of MILSATCOM systems and to develop protected systems that are less susceptible to signal jamming. ow.ly/VjRR50MmIZu #MITLLhistory
Two employees in white jumpsuits and yellow hard hats working on the military satellite communications program.

ALT Two employees in white jumpsuits and yellow hard hats working on the military satellite communications program.
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