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Mission Shakti

Mission Shakti, Sanskrit for strength, was India's first anti-satellite missile test on 27 March 2019, in which a DRDO interceptor destroyed the Microsat-R satellite in low Earth orbit.

Mission Sudarshan Chakra (मिशन सुदर्शन चक्र)

Mission Sudarshan Chakra (मिशन सुदर्शन चक्र) is an Indian defense program announced by Narendra Modi on August 15, 2025, aiming for an indigenous air and missile defense shield.

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction film directed by Brian De Palma, in which a rescue crew travels to Mars after an expedition is destroyed.

Mission: Space

Mission: Space is a space-flight simulator attraction at EPCOT in Walt Disney World, opened in 2003, offering an intense spinning Orange Mission to Mars and a gentler Green Earth-orbit version.

Mississippi Crossing (pipeline)

Mississippi Crossing, also called the MSX Project, is a proposed 199-mile natural gas pipeline in Mississippi and Alabama, sponsored by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a Kinder Morgan subsidiary.

Mississippi Department of Transportation

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) is the state agency responsible for highways, bridges, transit, ports, railroads, and aviation, headquartered in Jackson and created in 1992.

Mississippi Power

Mississippi Power is a Gulfport, Mississippi, electric utility serving about 192,000 customers in 23 southeastern counties. Founded in 1925, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company.

Mississippi River and Tributaries Project

The Mississippi River and Tributaries Project is a flood control and navigation program for the lower Mississippi River, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1928.

Mississippi Valley Division

The Mississippi Valley Division is a US Army Corps of Engineers regional command managing water resources, navigation, and flood control across the Mississippi River Valley in 12 states.

Missouri Department of Transportation

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is the state agency responsible for Missouri's roads and bridges, maintaining the seventh largest state system in the nation.

Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act

The Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act (MEEIA) is a 2009 Missouri statute valuing utility demand-side investments equal to supply and allowing cost recovery.

Missouri Pacific Railroad

The Missouri Pacific Railroad, known as the MoPac, was a Class I railroad radiating from St. Louis across the South and Southwest until its 1997 merger into Union Pacific.

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (M-K-T or MKT), nicknamed the Katy, linked Missouri and Kansas with Texas and was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north, in 1872.

Mistral (model family)

Mistral (model family) is a line of large language models from Mistral AI. It began in 2023 and is known for its efficient architecture and open-weight licensing.

Mistral AI

Mistral AI is a Paris-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by three former Meta and Google DeepMind researchers, which trains frontier large language models.

Mistral AI funding rounds

The Mistral AI funding rounds are the equity and debt raises by Paris-based AI lab Mistral AI, from a 2023 seed to a €3 billion Series D in 2026.

Mistral AI Series C

The Mistral AI Series C was a €1.7 billion funding round announced on 9 September 2025, led by ASML and valuing the French AI company at €11.7 billion.

Mistral AI Series D

The Mistral AI Series D is a €3 billion funding round announced in September 2026, led by Samsung Electronics and valuing Mistral AI at more than €21 billion.

Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is a 675B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts multimodal language model released by Mistral AI on December 2, 2025 under Apache 2.0, its first mixture-of-experts model since Mixtral.

Mistral Research License

The Mistral Research License (MRL) is a research-only license Mistral AI attached to downloadable weights of flagship models like Mistral Large 2 in 2024, barring commercial use.

Misumi power station

Misumi power station (三隅発電所) is a coal-fired power station operated by Chugoku Electric Power on the coast of Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, with two 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 1998 and 2022.

Misuse detection

Misuse detection is a security detection approach that identifies attacks by matching observed activity against signatures of known threats, effective against known attacks but blind to zero-day attacks.

MIT Aerospace Controls Laboratory

The MIT Aerospace Controls Laboratory is an MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics research group led by Jonathan P. How that studies autonomous systems and control for aircraft and spacecraft.

MIT Arm

The MIT Arm is a small all-electric manipulator with six rotational joints, designed by Victor Scheinman at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and later manufactured as the Vicarm.

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or AI Lab, was an MIT research laboratory founded in 1959 by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky that merged into CSAIL in 2003.

MIT Cheetah

MIT Cheetah is a family of electrically actuated quadruped robots developed at MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab under Sangbae Kim, known for efficient custom motors and proprioceptive, camera-free locomotion.

MIT Daedalus

MIT Daedalus, a human-powered aircraft, was built by an MIT team that flew it from Crete to Santorini in 1988, setting distance and endurance records for human-powered flight.

MIT License

The MIT License is a short, permissive free software license allowing use, modification, and sale of software, requiring only that the copyright notice be preserved.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, also known as Lincoln Lab, is a federally funded research and development center in Lexington, Massachusetts, operated by MIT for the Department of Defense since 1951.

MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab, also known as the MIT Media Laboratory, is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at MIT, founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner.