Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) is a public scientific-technological university in Italy that trains engineers, architects, and industrial designers, with a strong focus on aerospace research and education. Its Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER) is the only university department in Italy entirely dedicated to aerospace studies, conducting research in areas like flying machines (including spacecraft), space exploration, and space debris management. PoliMi partners with organizations like the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) on projects such as the HERMES-SP nanosatellite constellation for monitoring cosmic events and the Space Sustainability Rating.
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DAEDALUS is a Politecnico di Milano project that proposes a modular vision-based architecture for autonomous navigation in lunar exploration.
KESSLER from the University of Trieste's Astreo Team and AIPER from Politecnico di Milano were selected for a four-month path with ESA BIC Brindisi.
Giovanni Pandolfi Bortoletto studied aerospace engineering at Politecnico di Milano and serves as Leaf Space's Chief Product Officer.
The LUMIO cubesat was developed by a European consortium led by Politecnico di Milano and supported by the Italian Space Agency.
Politecnico di Milano coordinates the LUMIO mission through the DART Lab of its Department of Aerospace Science and Technology.
Giuseppe Sala is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Science and Technologies at Politecnico di Milano and serves as president of BEX’s Technical Scientific Committee.
Tyvak International will play a leading role within a consortium that includes prime contractor CNIT, FlySight, and Politecnico di Milano.
The teams that reached the Baseline Design Review stage are 6S from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), AlbaSat from Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), BIXO from University of Vigo (Spain), ROSPIN-SAT-1 from Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania), SAGE from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and ST3LLAR-Sat1 from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain).
The H.E.R.M.E.S. detectors are hosted by a constellation of six smallsats to be launched into low Earth orbit and are designed and implemented at Politecnico di Milano labs.
GomSpace signed a contract with Politecnico di Milano that includes a large quantity of GomSpace space-qualified products for the H.E.R.M.E.S. mission valued at 5.8 MSEK.
The contract deliveries for the GomSpace–Politecnico di Milano agreement will take place in 2021/2022.