Professor of space systems @polimi
Milano, Italy
Joined June 2011
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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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📢 Consolidator Grant results! 301 excellent researchers received #ERCCoG worth in total €600 million - to address frontier research questions, build up their teams and have far-reaching impact. erc.europa.eu/news/erc-award…
🇪🇺#EUfunded
@EUScienceInnov @EU_Commission @GabrielMariya
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.
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🌓 #DAERSeminar on lunar mission analysis 🌗
🗣️Lorenzo Bucci, Mission Analyst at the @esa, #DAER alumnus
🔎the Argonaut program
📅Thursday, November 7, at 13:15
👉All info at aero.polimi.it/it/magazine/e…
#PhDAER
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.
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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 @FrancescoTop, @fabiolouf
Link to news: polimi.it/en/the-politecnico…
#polimiresearch
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Cape Canaveral, Oct. 7, 2024:
✅launch of Hera with the Milani CubeSat🛰️ on board
✅#polimi team👥 led by Prof. @FrancescoTop and @fabiolouf of #DAER ready to embark on this amazing journey.
📅ETA: December 2026
🚩Destination: Asteroid 65803, Dydimos.
aero.polimi.it/it/magazine/i…
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_Polimi.
Let's now wait and see how #Didymos will look like in two years!
.@deepbluedot opens #Hera pre-launch briefing. Very emotional feelings in the room.
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/12915594
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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 💪🏻
Francesco Topputo retweeted
Four researchers from the Politecnico di Milano have secured an #ERCPoC grant funded by @ERC_Research for outstanding projects in cutting-edge fields: they are Sara Bagherifard, Daniele Ielmini, Francesco Topputo and Gianvito Vilé.
🔗polimi.it/en/the-politecnico…
#LUMIO mission approval by @esa sent us over the Moon! The mission could be ready for launch as early as 2027. 🚀
Many thanks to @ASI_spazio (#Italy) and to the national delegations of #Norway, #Sweden, and #UK for supporting us.
Full story here👇
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And we made it to @esa's image of the week!
esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
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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/Image…
ALT Retina testbed, including two parallel optical lines
ALT Lumio CubeSat will detect meteoroid impacts on the lunar farside during local darkness
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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 @FrancescoTop (@DART_Lab_Polimi) on @aiaa's JGCD:
📰arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G…
