Ladyfly is one of the many robotic mobility technologies being developed at Politecnico di Milano and possibly a secondary payload of the Amalia rover
May 7, 2012 - by ECCOMAS SMART2013
MUL2 group that participates to the Google Lunar X PRIZE with the TEAM ITALIA is organizing the next ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials SMART2013. The ECCOMAS SMART 2013 is the sixth in a series which started in 2001 and has progressed successfully over the years. Past conference venues were located in Portugal, Poland and Germany. It will held in Italy at the Politecnico di Torino, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering June 24 – 26, 2013. The main topics of the conference will be related to the following areas :
May 4, 2012 - by European Lunar Symposium
Team Italia actively participated to the European Lunar Symposium held in Berlin on 19th and 20th April 2012. Prof. M. Lavagna, from Politecnico di Milano, gave a presentation of the AMALIA mission profile, together with the state-of-the-art of the overall project.
April 26, 2012 - by Two new videos
Two new videos have been loaded on the YouTube chanel of the Talia.
Enjoy with us!
April 18, 2012 - by AMALIA MISSION ANALYSIS
Lunar Base for Mars Missions
Human missions to Mars are the challenge of the 21st century, and missions with ever-increasing complexity are planned to give more information about Mars and its environment.
April 5, 2012 - by Happy Easter
Happy Easter
Joyeuse Pasques
Frohe Ostern
Felices Pascuas
Fouai Hwo Gie Quai le
Eeid -Foss’h Mubarak
Sretun Uskrs
Gezuar Pashken
Paste Fericit
Vesele Velikonoce
Sreken Veligden
Souk San Van Easter
Veselá velká noc
Boa Pascoa
Kalo Paska
Zalig Paasfeest
March 28, 2012 - by AMALIA Lander Leg test
See the test performed on the Leg of the AMALIA Lander.
Enjoy!
March 19, 2012 - by Even a small step requires a good leg…
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" was the famous line that Neil Armstrong uttered in his helmet radio system while stepping off Lunar Module Eagle’s ladder, forty-three years ago. Thales Alenia Space-Italia, member of Team Italia, is fully aware that even a small step requires a good leg, especially if it happens on the Moon surface: this is the reason why a full-scale demonstrator of AMALIA Lander deployable landing leg has been carefully built and it is now ready for testing.
March 16, 2012 - by E-ST@R on VEGA
The ASSET-AeroSpace System Engineering Team, one the components of Politecnico di Torino attending to Team Italia had a peculiar engagement on successful maiden flight of new advance launcher VEGA, on 13th February 2012. One of the university cubesat lauched by VEGA, in fact, is E-ST@R (Educational – SaTellite @ Politecnico di toRino), conceived, designed, integrated by a number of AeroSpace Degree Courses for more than 3 years under ASSET support and coordination.
March 12, 2012 - by TSD team participated to the MASER 12 Sounding Rocket campaign
TSD team involved in Digital Video Systems (DVS) flew to the polar base of Esrange (Sweden) to participate to the MASER 12 Sounding Rocket campaign. As usual for Maser TSD is responsible for the on board video service module dedicated to the real time acquisition, compression, storage and transmission of scientific images from a number of experimental payloads. For the specific Maser 12 mission TSD has provided the following units:
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