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Geodesy group receives five-year NASA grant
Haystack will continue the decades-long partnership with NASA's Space Geodesy Project (SGP).

Kazunori Akiyama hired as Research Scientist
Akiyama has been working at Haystack as a post-doctoral researcher and Jansky Fellow of NRAO since 2015.

The great dimming of Betelgeuse: Hubble observations provide insight
Haystack radio astronomer Lynn Matthews co-authors “Spatially Resolved Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Great Dimming of Betelgeuse.”

Larisa Goncharenko to lead CEDAR Science Steering Committee
Goncharenko has been named chair of a key CEDAR committee.

Undergraduates succeed in remote internships
This year's summer undergraduate interns adapted to the challenge of doing research from home.

Weak magnetic fields in the Serpens South star cluster
Haystack radio astronomer Jens Kauffmann is a co-author of "Magnetized filamentary gas flows feeding the young embedded cluster in Serpens South."

SDR in August
Haystack scientists and engineers will be among those contributing to the August 2020 NEWSDR 2020 conference, held virtually this year.

Haystack scientists teach at the NSF-funded Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) school
Geospace scientists from Haystack offer classes in a wide range of atmospheric sciences at the yearly ISR school, held online in 2020.

Geodesy engineering team wins award
The prestigious Robert H. Goddard Award for Engineering Teams is awarded to the SGP engineering team.

Haystack’s Mary Knapp and ASTERIA team break record
Mission breaks record for smallest satellite to detect an exoplanet.

Haystack’s Mike Poirier honored in MIT ceremony
Congratulations to Haystack's own Mike Poirier, of Westford Radio Telescope fame, on his well-deserved 2020 MIT Infinite Mile award.
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