Which is the best method to navigate in a double asteroid environment? You'll find the answer in the new paper by @Mpugliattia, @VittoFranz, and @FrancescoTop published by @aiaa's J. of Spacecraft and Rockets. https://t.co/ZTu4Btuc3B
ESA's M-Argo mission will be the first #CubeSat to fly itself thru interplanetary space - while an #ESATech workshop this month considers chemical or electric propulsion options for future #CubeSats in Earth orbit, getting these versatile mini-sats moving https://t.co/d7KuIVkBb4
A procedure to identify the envelop of reachable asteroids by the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) CubeSat is presented in a @ElsevierConnect ASR paper coauthored by our @FrancescoTop, Yang Wang, Carmine Giordano, @VittoFranz https://t.co/8CjMGT0jyo
You're lost in space and you see beacons, but you don’t know which one to use? The new paper by our V. Franzese and @FrancescoTop suggests an optimal beacons selection strategy for deep-space optical navigation https://t.co/8JXaPhHtEx
I am extremely honored to have been awarded an #ERC Consolidator Grant to conduct fundamental research in the field of astrodynamics.
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#ESATech image of the week: this suitcase-sized spacecraft is a 12-unit #CubeSat designed for deep space exploration of an #asteroid. M-Argo has just passed its Mission Design Review, confirming it is able to reach a choice of 148 near-Earth #asteroids https://t.co/V0IMyenlOt
Very happy to have kicked off the M-ARGO deep space CubeSat project with Gomspace and Politecnico di Milano, along with our experts at ESA supporting the mission. The journey to rendezvous with the asteroid starts here!
Deviations from #GeneralRelativity can be tested by spacecraft on Sun-Earth saddle point ballistic fly-through trajectories, as explained in the new paper by our @FrancescoTop and @diogene_gg https://t.co/E5Yyp52Kpk
Il CubeSat #LUMIO di @AerospacePoliMI tra i vincitori della challenge #SYSNOVA di @esaGSP. Un satellite artificiale in miniatura in grado di osservare, quantificare e descrivere gli impatti dei meteoroidi sulla Luna. Foto: ESA https://t.co/iO9tGgHgEY
Imagine sending a spacecraft the size of an airline cabin bag to the #Moon – what would you have it do? ESA issued that challenge to European teams last year, and two winners have now been chosen. #CubeSats
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