Skip to main content
MIT Corporate Relations
MIT Corporate Relations
Search
×
Read
Watch
Attend
About
Connect
MIT Startup Exchange
Search
Sign-In
Register
Search
×
MIT ILP Home
Read
Faculty Features
Research
News
Watch
Attend
Conferences
Webinars
Learning Opportunities
About
Membership
Staff
For Faculty
Connect
Faculty/Researchers
Program Directors
MIT Startup Exchange
User Menu and Search
Search
Sign-In
Register
MIT ILP Home
Toggle menu
Search
Sign-in
Register
Read
Faculty Features
Research
News
Watch
Attend
Conferences
Webinars
Learning Opportunities
About
Membership
Staff
For Faculty
Connect
Faculty/Researchers
Program Directors
MIT Startup Exchange
Back to Faculty/Researchers
Prof. David W Miller
Jerome C Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Primary DLC
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MIT Room:
37-327
(617) 253-4885
millerd@mit.edu
https://aeroastro-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/people/david-miller/
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Distributed Satellite Systems
Precision Telescope Structures
Formation Flying Satellites
Research Summary
Miller's work focuses on developing ideas for spacecraft that can repair and upgrade satellites with multi-mission functions through space operations and docking using standard interfaces. He also helped develop a technique to control satellite movement, without propellant, using high temperature super-conducting electromagnets.
Recent Work
Projects
June 1, 2017
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MIT Project Apophis: The SET Mission Surface Evaluation and Tomography
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
VERTIGO: A Vision Based Navigation Upgrade to the SPHERES Satellites That Will Perform Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping of Non-Cooperative, Tumbling Targets
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
SAFER/CMG: CMG-Based Stability for EVAs near Low-Gravity Objects
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
ZERO ROBOTICS: Robotics Programming Games and Competitions Onboard the International Space Station
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
TERSAT: A University Nanosat Program Satellite to Remove Radiation from Earth's Atmosphere
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
RINGS: Demonstration of Electromagnetic Formation Flight on the International Space Station
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MICROMAS: A CubeSat Radiometer for Collecting Atmospheric Profile Data
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
SIMO: Precision Spacecraft Formations for Telescope Systems
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
TALARIS: A Prototype Vehicle to Develop Hopping GNC Software and Operational Experience
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
SWARM: Self-Assembling Wireless Autonomous Reconfigurable Modules
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
PHOENIX: Harvesting and Re-Using Valuable Components from Retired, Nonworking Satellites in GEO
Principal Investigator
David Miller
June 13, 2013
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
SPHERES: An ISS facility for On-Orbit Validation of Advanced Spacecraft Control Algorithms
Principal Investigator
David Miller
July 13, 2011
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MotherCube/DSS: A Distributed Satellite System for Locating Radio Sources
Principal Investigator
David Miller
November 9, 2006
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MIT Space Logistics Project: Interplanetary Supply Chain Management and Logistics Architecture
Principal Investigator
David Miller
Related Faculty
Prof. Steven Barrett
H N Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Dr. Charles M Oman
Senior Research Engineer
Maxim Oleg Khatsenko
Graduate Student