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February 2, 2023June 3, 2023News

New Acta Astronautica paper on active debris removal service for large constellations is out!

How can we guarantee the long-term sustainability of the constellation? One of the solution is represented by the development of active debris removal and servicing activities for the constellation fleet.
The new paper published in Acta Astronautica by @Giacomo Borelli, @Gabriella Gaias, @Camilla Colombo presents a design of the rendezvous and proximity operations required for an active debris removal service for large constellation.

Check it out for a 50-days free access at: here.

February 1, 2023February 7, 2023News

Prof. Camilla Colombo wins ERC CoG grant with GREEN SPECIES project!

Professor Camilla Colombo from the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of Politecnico di Milano was awarded the prestigious consolidator grant from the European Research Council (ERC) with the project GREEN SPECIES “Robust control of the space debris population to define optimal policies and an economic revenue model for sustainable development of space activities”.

January 23, 2023June 3, 2023News

COMPASS Team at 33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting in Austin, TX

Last week the COMPASS group took part of the 33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Meeting in Austin, Texas with two technical contributions. Our Ph.D. candidates Giacomo and Lorenzo presented their work on rendezvous and proximity operations and space debris evolutionary model.

January 11, 2023June 3, 2023News

Icarus paper on modelling impact ejecta distributions

The new paper published in Icarus by Mirko Trisolini, Camilla Colombo and Yuichi Tsuda proposes a new statistical formulation to model ejecta generated by impacts onto asteroids surfaces.

January 5, 2023June 3, 2023News

Journal Publication on HPC and GPU computing for massive orbit propagation

New article on HPC and GPU computing! Alessandro Masat, Camilla Colombo, and Arnaud Boutonnet propose an augmentation scheme to optimise the computational performance of the massive orbit propagation problem.

December 20, 2022June 3, 2023News

Acta Astronautica paper on asteroid sample collection is out!

The new paper published in Acta Astronautica by Mirko Trisolini, Camilla Colombo and Yuichi Tsuda analyses target asteroids for a novel sample collection mission concept.
The paper is freely available at this link.

October 7, 2022June 3, 2023News

A new model for manoeuvre planning algorithm for satellite formations using mean relative orbital elements

Formation flying missions have increased their importance thanks to the better performances that can be achieved with a distributed system of satellites.
A recent paper by Alejandro Monteiro Miñan, Francesca Scala and Camilla Colombo proposes an open-loop manoeuvre planning algorithm, to provide the control accelerations for a formation reconfiguration.

September 27, 2022June 3, 2023News

IAC 2022 – FRANCESCA SCALA WON THE BEST INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION AWARD

Our PhD student Francesca Scala won one of the five Best Interactive Presentation Award at the 73rd International Astronautical Congress IAC22 in Paris.

September 15, 2022June 3, 2023News

A new analytical model to evaluate collision probability with large satellite constellations

In a space environment with an ever-growing satellite population, the latest paper by Eduardo Polli, Juan Luis Gonzalo and Camilla Colombo eases studies in the context of Space Situational Awareness, by developing an algorithm capable of assessing the average collision probability between an object subjected to continuous tangential thrust, and tens of thousands of constellations’ satellites, all within milli-seconds. Available here.

September 15, 2022June 3, 2023News

Festival dell’Ingegneria 2022

Thanks to everyone who attended the Festival dell‘Ingegneria last weekend and visited the activities of the COMPASS group of the DAER of Politecnico di Milano! It was great to discuss with you the challenges of space sustainability, climate change and appreciate how Space is for Earth!