Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 minutes ago
In this live webcast from February 3, 2025, members of the Cardinal & Gray Society hear from Professor Richard Linares, head of MIT’s Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Lab (ARCLab). He shares his insights on the rapid growth of active satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and the challenges they pose to safe and sustainable space operations.
Professor Richard Linares joined MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an assistant professor in July 2018. Before joining MIT, he was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in aerospace engineering from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
In this live webcast from February 3, 2025, members of the Cardinal & Gray Society hear from Professor Richard Linares, head of MIT’s Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Lab (ARCLab). He shares his insights on the rapid growth of active satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and the challenges they pose to safe and sustainable space operations.
Professor Richard Linares joined MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an assistant professor in July 2018. Before joining MIT, he was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in aerospace engineering from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
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Read more about the MIT alumni who are tournament tiddlywinks world champions: https://bit.ly/4fzZVNH
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Have you ever heard of a winker using a squidger to pot a wink? Do you understand the challenge presented by a nurdle and the risk of being squopped out? If so, you may be an aficionado of tiddlywinks, a tabletop game in which small colored disks (squidgers) are used to propel other, smaller disks (winks) into a cup.
Tournament tiddlywinks can be fiercely competitive—and MIT alumni have been at the highest ranks of the game for decades. Top player (aka winker) Larry Kahn ’75, SM ’76 holds 24 world championship titles in singles competition and 20 in pairs.
Kahn and his friends David Lockwood ’75 and Rick Tucker ’80 (both of whom have also won championship titles at various levels) all trace their passion for the game back to MIT, where they joined the then-thriving tiddlywinks club.
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