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July 4, 2019July 22, 2019News

The new president of the Italian Space Agency visits PoliMi

Being Italy’s leading academic institution in aerospace engineering, Politecnico di Milano has many projects with the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. As a testament of this long relation, the new president of ASI Giorgio Saccoccia visited our Department of Aerospace Science and Technology this Thursday. The COMPASS team introduced him to our virtual reality tools for outreach activities, aimed at raising awareness about the challenges and benefits of space utilization.

Camilla Colombo and the ERC delegation at the World Economic Forum 2019

July 3, 2019July 5, 2019News

COMPASS at the Wold Economic Forum

Camilla Colombo was selected to attend the Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China as part of the delegation of the ERC.

July 3, 2019January 13, 2020News

ESA’s Space Engineering and Technology Final Presentation Days

Every year, the European Space Agency organizes its Space Engineering and Technology Final Presentation Days, a remarkable occasion to look back on the recent achievements from its technology programmes. This year, the event took place 2-4 July at ESTEC, with ESOC joining on 3 July. Juan Luis Gonzalo from COMPASS was on ESOC to present our recent work on the use of sails and tethers as passive deorbiting devices, developed in collaboration with 4 other European partners.

July 3, 2019July 5, 2019News

COMPASS at the 8th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences

The COMPASS team attended the 8th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences to present recent developments on low-thrust geostationary station-keeping.

June 28, 2019December 2, 2019News

COMPASS at the New Trends in Celestial Mechanics (NTCM) Conference

Narcís Miguel from the COMPASS team participated in the Conference New Trends in Celestial Mechanics (NTCM), in a special session dedicated to applied problems.

COMPASS team at the ERC stand in Ecsite 2019

June 8, 2019January 13, 2020News

Excited about science? COMPASS joins the ERC at Ecsite 2019

As complex as scientific research can be, getting the general public excited about science can be even more challenging. This is why the annual conference of the European network of science centres and museums (Ecsite) is a must-attend event to all professionals working to engage audiences with science and technology. The European Research Council joined the event for the very first time this year, and they invited the COMPASS team to come along.

May 29, 2019June 26, 2019News

Publication of an article on satellite coverage area determination modelling Earth as an ellipsoid

A journal article led by Marco Nugnes of the COMPASS team presents a new refined procedure for the determination of the coverage area in view of an orbiting satellite, modelling the Earth’s surface as an oblate ellipsoid of rotation instead of the classical perfect sphere.

Superposition of current satellite population over the natural dynamics

May 24, 2019June 24, 2019News

Publication of article on the sustainable exploitation of the geosynchronous orbit

Are we done with GEO? Check some fresh ideas that could lead to a sustainable exploitation of the geosynchronous orbital region in the new paper by Ioannis Gkolias & Camilla Colombo funded by ReDSHIFT H2020 project.

Front page of Mirko Trisolini's PhD thesis

May 23, 2019June 21, 2019News

Mirko Trisolini PhD Viva

Mirko Trisolini had his PhD Viva and successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Southampton to be awarded the degree of Doctor.

Prof. Baojun Pang during his visit to Politecnico di Milano

May 14, 2019May 22, 2019News

Seminar by Prof. Baojun Pang on the space debris environment

Prof. Baojun Pang, from the Harbin Institute of Technology (China), visited Politecnico di Milano to meet the COMPASS group. He delivered a seminar on the space debris environment, showcasing the destructive power of space debris and recapping assistants on the latest updates of the Space Debris Environment Engineering Model (SDEEM 2019).