News 11-04-2011
Two abstracts were
submitted for the
AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics
Specialist Conference, to be held on July 31
- August 4, 2011 at The Hotel Alyeska in
Girdwood, Alaska:
D. Modenini, P. Tortora, “Re-examination of Pioneer 10 Tracking Data Including Spacecraft Thermal Modelling”
A. Palli, P. Tortora, “Selection of Mercury’s Surface Features Coordinates for the BepiColombo Rotation Experiment”
Four full papers plus
posters were submitted for the
8th IAA SSEO
Symposium, held in Berlin on April 4th –
8th, 2011:
D. Cinarelli, P. Tortora “High throughput S-band Transmitter for Earth Observation Applications” (poster)
A. Corbelli, D. Bruzzi and P. Tortora “Optimized Separation System for Small Satellites Missions” (poster)
A. Avanzi, P. Tortora, “Design and development of a GNSS space-borne receiver for Earth Observation satellites orbit determination” (presented as an oral by A. Avanzi)
F. Antonini, A. Tambini, P. Tortora, “ALMASat-EO Microsatellite Power System” (poster)
A. Avanzi won the Best Presentation Award.
Three presentations were given at the
EGU General Assembly, held in Vienna on April 3th -8th, 2011:
M. Ducci, J. W. Armstrong, S. W. Asmar, L. Iess, R. Jacobson, N. Rappaport, D. Stevenson, and P. Tortora “Enceladus’ Gravity Field inferred from Range Rate Measurements of the Cassini Spacecraft”
A. Martellucci, P. Tortora, E. Fionda, S. Crewell, G. Elgered, A. Graziani, V. Mattioli, and P. Jarlemark “Water vapour assessment for the characterisation of radiowave propagation in Satellite Communication systems and Radio Science Experiments”
P. Tortora, A. Bevilacqua, L. Carozza, A. Genova, A. Gherardi, L. Iess, R. Meriggiola, A. Palli, P. Palumbo, and M. Zusi “Simulation of BepiColombo’s Mercury Rotation Experiment”
A final paper was submitted for the
9th European Space Power Conference – EPSC 2011, to be held in Saint Raphaël, France, on 6 - 10 June 2011:
A. Tambini, F. Antonini, A. Corbelli, F. Rossi,
P. Tortora, “Solar Array Simulator for Microsatellites Power System Testing”
