New paper on close proximity operations
Check out the new paper by Giacomo Borelli, Gabriella Gaias and Camilla Colombo with the collegues of TSD, Jaxa and ASI on the SpEye CubeSAt mission project.
Tag: Research
Guidance and Control for Safe Contactless Plume Impingement Operations to Detumble an Uncooperative Spacecraft
Check out the new paper by @Giacomo, @Gabriella and @Camilla where we tackled the challenges of controlling an uncooperative target rotational motion with a contactless method to aid a future capture.
The paper is available here.
SpEye mission milestone achieved!
SpEye CubeSat mission goes on, phase A reviews successfully passed!
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”.
New member of the COMPASS team
Martina Rusconi joined the COMPASS team! She recently graduated in Space Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and has been granted a research fellowship on orbit and attitude modelling.
COMPASS at International Astronautical Congress 2021
The COMPASS group participated to the 72nd International Astronautical Congress this October in Dubai, UAE.
The COMPASS members participating contributed to the technical programme of the congress with several presentation on topics such as space debris, collision avoidance, asteroid ejecta dynamics, formation flying and active debris removal, and sustainability of space. For more info on the research works presented at the congress visit our LinkedIn page.
ESA Space Debris Office seminar at PoliMi
On December 16, Francesca Letizia from the ESA Space Debris Office gave a seminar at PoliMi about the sustainability of the space environment and the importance of space situational awareness for current space activities and for future space exploitation.