🎯 Career milestone: 100 journal papers!

We made it! We developed a full pipeline made of image processing and orbit determination for autonomous deep-space vehicles. 👉Check the new #OpenAccess #researchPaper by E Andreis, P Panicussi, and Francesco Topputo (DART Lab) on AIAA's JGCD: 📰arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.…

This optical testbed is preparing for an autonomous navigation experiment, to be performed by @ESA's new Lumio #CubeSat, planned to detect meteoroid flashes on the night-time farside of the Moon esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

And we made it to European Space Agency's image of the week! esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

#LUMIO mission approval by European Space Agency sent us over the Moon! The mission could be ready for launch as early as 2027. 🚀 Many thanks to Agenzia Spaziale ITA (#Italy) and to the national delegations of #Norway, #Sweden, and #UK for supporting us. Full story here👇 esa.int/Enabling_Suppo…

Four researchers from the Politecnico di Milano have secured an #ERCPoC grant funded by European Research Council (ERC) for outstanding projects in cutting-edge fields: they are Sara Bagherifard, Daniele Ielmini, Francesco Topputo and Gianvito Vilé. 🔗polimi.it/en/the-politec…

Qualification Acceptance Review board held yesterday, #HeraMission go to complete last remaining functional tests 🚀 then packing containers for transport to KSC. CONGRATULATIONS to all teams involved, the whole board was impressed by what we achieved in one year of testing 💪🏻

Back in 2013 I published the paper "On optimal two-impulse Earth–Moon transfers in a four-body model" in which over 200k Earth-Moon transfers were created. The dataset of transfers is now open and fully accessible at zenodo.org/records/129155…

Thank you Paolo for delivering such an inspiring talk to our Politecnico di Milano students! After so long (10 years since #comet #landing, 20 since #launch), hearing the story of #Rosetta #mission is always fascinating.

It’s T-4 days, and it’s time to repost this 👇

.Ian opens #Hera pre-launch briefing. Very emotional feelings in the room.

A personal thought before #Hera's #Milani launch 👇 linkedin.com/posts/francesc…

Despite all odds, #Milani has been launched aboard his mothership #Hera on a #Falcon 9 rocket. So happy to have contributed to this mission with a high-qualified team at the DART Lab. Let's now wait and see how #Didymos will look like in two years!

Cape Canaveral, Oct. 7, 2024: ✅launch of Hera with the Milani CubeSat🛰️ on board ✅#polimi team👥 led by Prof. Francesco Topputo and Fabio Ferrari of #DAER ready to embark on this amazing journey. 📅ETA: December 2026 🚩Destination: Asteroid 65803, Dydimos. aero.polimi.it/it/magazine/il…

Hera probe launched at Cape Canaveral 🚀 destination Asteroid Dydimos. The first planetary defense experiment to which @AerospacePoliMI contributed with the Milani CubeSat. #DAER project leaders Francesco Topputo, Fabio Ferrari Link to news: polimi.it/en/the-politec… #polimiresearch

There’s few things better than talking about #space to youngsters. The sector growing strongly, we need young people and gender balance to fuel this growth.

🌓 #DAERSeminar on lunar mission analysis 🌗 🗣️Lorenzo Bucci, Mission Analyst at the European Space Agency, #DAER alumnus 🔎the Argonaut program 📅Thursday, November 7, at 13:15 👉All info at aero.polimi.it/it/magazine/eu… #PhDAER

10 years ago (Nov 12th, 2014), #Rosetta's #Philae performed the first-ever #soft #landing on Comet 67P. I was lucky to follow the landing #operations from the Lander Control Center. Aa special day that I'll never forget.