Andrea Turconi

Team coordination under the supervision of Prof. Franco Bernelli Zazzera. Design and verification of ESMO AOCS subsystem during Phase B1 - B2 and PDR process. Requirements and technical documentation editing, regular telecons, workshops at ESA and SSTL. Paper presented at GNC2011 student session.

ARIA (Atmosphere Remote Infrared Analyzer) a mission concept of 2009 Space Systems Design course at Politecnico di Milano. Phase A study completed after months of teamwork (one student per S/C subsystem) with regular reviews. Final presentation before a team of ESA experts.

Intership: start of Phase B1 tasks for ESMO AOCS team.

Promoter and leader candidate of an all-young civil list supporting a major candidate in Rho 2007 town council election

I coded the telecommunication and data handling software for PALAMEDE microsatellite and tested it on the S/C Flight Model. I gained proficiency in C and worked on an ORBCOMM radio-modem over a Linux realtime OS (RTAI).

Computer hardware assembly Data backup OS & various software installation

Attitude and Orbit Determination and Control, Mission Analysis, Flight Dynamics Thesis: "Attitude and Orbit Control System design for the ESMO satellite" (supervisor Prof. Bernelli)

Software Engineering, Control Systems Thesis: "Design and Development of Telecommunication and Data Handling software for the PALAMEDE Microsatellite" (supervisor Prof. Bernelli)