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Research group at PoliMi working on Space, Mission Analysis, Space Sustainability, Space Debris

15/01/2024

Several new uncontrolled objects are generated by fragmentation that occurs in orbit, representing a danger for the space population of active objects. Identify, reconstruct, and monitor them is of outmost importance to ensure the safety of the current and future space missions.

The new paper by our Andrea Muciaccia and Camilla Colombo in collaboration with the SPIRE Lab of DAER, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, presents the work done in terms of observation, monitoring and reconstruction of the Cosmos 1408 fragmentation occurred on the 15th November 2021.

Check it out at: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2468-8967(23)00113-1

Politecnico di Milano

12/01/2024

Interested in contributing to the future of Space Traffic Management?
Two Postdoc positions open on “Techniques and software development for Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic management” at Politecnico di Milano within the COMPASS research group.
Application Deadline 18 Jan 2024 and interview 23 Jan 2024 in telecon.

Apply here: https://www.polimi.it/en/faculty/working-at-the-politecnico/research-grants/a-r-18522

For any information feel free to contact prof. Camilla Colombo.

06/12/2023

Seminar annoucement!

Yu Nakajima, GNC research engineer from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will give a seminar today entitled: "Rendezvous Trajectory Optimization Considering Relative Navigation Error"

Join us today at 11:30 the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER) - Sala Consiglio.

Yu Nakajima has been working at Polimi within the COMPASS group for a year integrating his experience in JAXA and theories researched in Polimi to achieve safe and robust rendezvous against non-cooperative target. He holds a B.E. and M.E. degree from Keio University, Japan. He has been working for JAXA almost 10 years since then, involving the development of GPS receiver for GEO and research on the non-cooperative target rendezvous. He was a member of CRD2 program, a Japanese program to demonstrate the active debris removal of a large scale target.

Politecnico di Milano Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

03/10/2023

COMPASS PoliMi is participating to the 74th International Astronautical Congress in Baku!
The team has the following contributions to the congress:

“Mission analysis and guidance and control for the SpEye inspection CubeSat”. IAF ASTRODYNAMICS SYMPOSIUM, Session: Guidance, Navigation and Control (2).

“Large-scale mapping and analysis of collision avoidance manoeuvres with semi-analytical models”. 21st IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEBRIS, Session: Modeling and Risk Analysis.

“Path planning and control for asteroid ejecta collection after a kinetic impact”. IAF ASTRODYNAMICS SYMPOSIUM, Session: Interactive Presentations Session

Come and meet us during the conference and connect!

Politecnico di Milano International Astronautical Federation

02/10/2023

Our Ph.D. student Giacomo Borelli at AerospacePoliMi has been awarded one of the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana scholarships to participate in the 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) and Space Generation Congress (SGC) in Baku, Azerbaijan this October.

The scholarship was awarded to young students presenting a research paper at the IAC 2023 related to the strategic interest.
https://www.asi.it/bandi_e_concorsi/remi-per-la-partecipazione-al-74th-iac-e-al-21th-space-generation-congress-sgc-2023-su-tematiche-spaziali-di-interesse-dellasi-per-studenti-e-giovani-ricercatori-italiani/

Our Giacomo Borelli will give a talk at the IAC 2023 about the mission design and guidance and control strategy adopted in the SpEye CubeSat mission, funded by the Italian Space Agency Alcor programme. The presentation will take part of the IAF Astrodynamics Symposium.

International Astronautical Federation Space Generation Advisory Council Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Politecnico di Milano

22/09/2023

Il 22, 23 e 24 settembre si terrà il festival dell’ingegneria presso il Politecnico di Milano – Campus Milano Bovisa.
Veniteci a trovare al nostro laboratorio su “Orbite e satelliti per salvaguardare il nostro pianeta” e alla lezione per tutti i bambini su come Lo Spazio per noi e per lo studio dei cambiamenti climatici.
Vi aspettiamo!

Quando: sabato 23 e domenica 24 settembre, 10:00, 10:30 – 12:00 – 13:30 – 15:30 – 17:00
Dove: Edificio B14 desk 12, Politecnico Campus Bovisa

Useful Links:
Lab event: https://www.festival-ingegneria.polimi.it/prodotto/lo-spazio-per-noi-e-per-lo-studio-dei-cambiamenti-climatici/
PoliMi4Kids Event: https://www.festival-ingegneria.polimi.it/prodotto/orbite-e-satelliti-per-salvaguardare-il-nostro-pianeta/

Politecnico di Milano

02/08/2023

From the 6th to the 8th of June, Politecnico di Milano hosted the First “Space capacity allocation for the sustainability of space activities” workshop, open to all researchers, space operators and regulators working in the space debris field.

The workshop was a great opportunity to discuss and share the novelties on the sustainability of the space activities and the related evolution of the space environment.

This was achieved thanks to 29 presentations on current advances in research on space capacity modelling and management (including policy and economic aspects), and to discussions on space sustainability and space capacity management among all the participants coming from 5 continents and more than 30 institutions!

We would like to thank Secure World Foundation for helping to organise and co-financed the event, to thank the Organising and Scientific Committee for their help in realising the event, and to thank all the participants for actively and collaboratively contributing to the workshop.

This was just the beginning… see you next year!

European Research Council ESA - European Space Agency

21/07/2023

Exciting News! Politecnico di Milano successfully hosted the 2nd Space Debris Day, where industry experts shared valuable insights on space debris management, covering surveillance, situational awareness, traffic management, modelling, and mitigation strategies.

Networking opportunities allowed students to connect with professionals from global companies and institutions, expanding their perspectives on addressing the space debris challenge.

The event was a remarkable experience, deepening attendees' understanding of space engineering and emphasizing collaboration. We were pleased to support in organizing this enriching event!

19/06/2023

Have a look at the new journal article by Francesca Scala, Ioannis Gkolias and Camilla Colombo on the analytical trajectory design for distant planetary orbiters using the Hamiltonian phase space, published in the journal of Guidance, Dynamics and Control.

Available at: https://t.ly/_3WH

European Research Council Politecnico di Milano

31/05/2023

On the 17th of May, our Francesca Scala successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Multiple satellites formation flying for Earth observation applications in low Earth orbit”, at Politecnico di Milano.

Her research defines a mission design technique to enable future distributed multi-satellite systems for high-resolution interferometry. Furthermore, her work proposes a methodology for guidance, navigation and control algorithms for a fast and reliable simulation of the system performances. The significance of her study relies on the flexibility of the developed methodology, which can be applied to several multiple-spacecraft formation concepts, not only in the Earth observation field. Francesca was supervised by Prof. Camilla Colombo and Dr Gabriella Gaias, and her research was co-funded by the ERC COMPASS project and the ESA/ESTEC’s FFLAS mission concept study.

European Research Council ESA - European Space Agency Politecnico di Milano

12/05/2023

Politecnico di Milano will host the “Space capacity allocation for the sustainability of space activities” workshop on 6th to 8th June: open to researchers, space operators and regulators to discuss on space sustainability and space capacity management.

For more information look at the link:https://indico.esa.int/e/space_capacity

Registration by 18/05/2023.

ESA - European Space Agency European Research Council Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Secure World Foundation

11/05/2023

The new paper published by Lorenzo Giudici, Mirko Trisolini and Camilla Colombo presents a fully probabilistic model for the long-term propagation of space debris clouds evolving under any orbital regime.

The paper is available at the following link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117723003083

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