LEXICON: a new improved technology from the Apollo Mission
Are you curious about lunar exploration and possible lunar human settlements? Well, take a look at the LEXICON project!
New PoliSpace Webinar: “Discovering tardigrades: small yet strong!” with Arianna Ricchiuti
Arianna Ricchiuti will discuss terrestrial organisms as models of alien life forms by analyzing some bacteria and animals called “tardigrades,” describing their characteristics and their ability to live in extreme environments such as Space.
New PoliSpace webinar: “Entering the Space Sector” with EVONA
Born when four passionate recruitment specialists teamed up to apply their skills to improve the long-term prospects of the space sector, EVONA represents over 30 years of combined recruiter experience and over 20 years of space sector recruitment knowledge.
Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo: The Man Behind the Engineer
Last year, in mid-December, PoliSpace organized an interesting conference hosting Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo who spoke about the MSR Campaign. He currently works planetary protection in the MSR Program Office. We are often used to thinking of engineers working at NASA as superhumans of a completely different breed. This may be true, but every great story …
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Spark of Innovation: A Brief History of Electric Propulsion
When we think of rocketry, we commonly think of the impressive images and videos of spacecrafts being launched utilizing huge earth-shaking rockets, propelled through the skies by a scorching trail of exhaust and flames. These are our traditional thermochemical rocket thrusters, and since the advent of rocketry, they have been our most reliable way to get things out of our planet.
MEEVA Project
Human Space exploration presents many technical challenges when it comes to guaranteeing the safety of astronauts, both on a physiological and psychological level; therefore, it is crucial to train future astronauts and test the technologies that will enable them to venture beyond our planet beforehand.
“Per aspera ad astra”: the EPv0 story
Born out of necessity, grown with strength. This is EPv0, a Polispace story. Have you ever met someone so brilliant that you want to be part of their idea, their goal? This is what brought the EPv0 project to life when Sidereus and Polispace connected during the 2021 IAC conference. Sometimes it’s a spark, sometimes …
Mars Sample Return Campaign: Owner’s Manual
On Friday 15th of December, PoliSpace held a great event. We had the chance to connect with Dr Giuseppe Cataldo, who spoke about the Mars Sample Return Campaign. After the conference we could reach him and ask some more questions to know more about him and his life. You will know everything about the interview in our next article, but know let’s step back and see what MSR Campaign is.
SPARC Project
How can habitat spaces be optimized to suit human needs in space? How can we make the habitat more human-centered?
Many challenges for the future sustain of human life in space need to be overcome, the aim of the SPARC Project is to test existing space habitat concepts using Virtual Reality (VR). Testing a user’s experience will help us develop safer, more comfortable, and habitable spaces making the living in space, beyond surviving, a closer reality.
SpaceTech
SpaceTech is the technical department of PoliSpace. It proposes, develops and manages engineering projects in the association
Executive, Cubesat, [R]overtech Recruitment
PoliSpace is the first student space Association of Politecnico di Milano, founded in September 2020 by a group of space enthusiasts.
If you are a Polimi student and a space enthusiast, don’t miss this opportunity to become a member of PoliSpace
No plans for your Saturday Night? Pizza & MEEVA always sounds great!
Have you ever wondered how pizza was invented? Legend has it that the most famous pizza was created by the stroke of genius of the pizza maker Raffaele Esposito in 1889. King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of the Italian Reign during that time were visiting the Capodimonte Royal Palace in Naples. Raffaele was known …
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