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General Members Recruitment – February 2025

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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 CubeSat team member of PoliSpace:

As one of the CubeSat team members, you will take care of specific aspects connected with your role to help the associaton in building a real CubeSat.

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The San Marco Project: A Journey Back to the Dawn of Italian Space Exploration

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Geneva, May 31, 1962. A year has passed since Alan Shepard became the first American in space, thanks to his suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7. Meanwhile, Western nations are opening the doors to the space sector, that until now had been the exclusive domain of the two superpowers of the Cold War. A month earlier,

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What’s next, SpaceTech?

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Amongst PoliSpace’s many facets and organizational subdivisions, there exists an ecosystem where highly technical and more self-contained projects take place. This is SpaceTech, the technical department of PoliSpace. Here, engineering projects are proposed, developed and managed for internal use, competitions, or even other entities and external companies! Due to this very nature, active projects have

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3,2,1… MEEVA engaged, Asclepios IV is a go!

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We all know space is not exactly easy to deal with. With phrases like “it’s not rocket science” or “shoot for the stars” it’s even become general culture to hold its challenges in high regard! That said, looking it from a more technical perspective does not soften the blow. Space is harsh. Microgravity affects everything

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Journey to the stars

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Journey to the stars From Milan to Houston: three young students at the International Space University Elisabetta Marrucci, Matteo Rossi and Giorgia Rota, three talented students from Politecnico di Milano and members of PoliSpace, have achieved an incredible milestone by earning a spot in the prestigious Space Studies Program (SSP) at the International Space University

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A grounded look into the skies: The Ground Station Project

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(…) How can we predict the weather? A key part of this, and several other technologies, are ground stations! Surely it can’t be easy to design, manufacture and implement one of these, right? Well, whilst it is indeed not trivial, it is also not something that’s out of our reach! Here at PoliSpace, members of the SpaceTech group have been working on what has been labeled The Ground Station Project.

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Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo: The Man Behind the Engineer

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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

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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.

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