FAST Project
The FAST team conceived and designed a futuristic engine able to take you from Paris to Tokyo in less than two hours!
The TRINITY engine provides unprecedented travel times, flexibility, and reusability being competitive in today’s economy. It also complies with today’s environmental standards thanks to the use of liquid hydrogen as fuel.
6S CubeSat Project
Designing a CubeSat has always been one of the main focus of the association. After creating a team of BSc PoliMi students, the project of the PoliSpace CubeSat started getting shape.
Lexicon Project
Lexicon design aims to improve the filtering solutions already adopted in the Apollo mission by reducing the required maintenance and increasing the number of possible applications. The system is based on a closed-cycle, involving an inert fluid coupled with a cyclone filter to collect the dust produced inside a dome accommodating the ISRUmachine. The system’s scalability is allowed by 3D printing almost all the components and assembling them in-situ, thus avoiding the transportation of bulky materials.
Experimental Payload V0
The experimental payload EPv0 is a project of the italian company Sidereus Space Dynamics developed, designed and built with the contribution of PoliSpace. EPv0 aims to characterize through measurements the payload bay of Sidereus’ launcher EOS.
Nuclear Series: Fast Nuclear Thermal Rockets
Webinar Details: This presentation will cover the topic of using hydrogen reaction mass derived from the Moon, reaching asteroids in 3 months, and harvesting platinum for another trillion-dollar market. Guest: Dr. Peter Schubert is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Director of the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy (LCRE) at […]
Nuclear Series: Terrestrial Power from Space
Webinar Details: This presentation will cover the topic of serving utility energy needs from orbital power-generating satellites, at massive scales, having a near-zero carbon footprint on Earth. Guest: Dr. Peter Schubert is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Director of the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy (LCRE) at Indiana University-Purdue […]
A Christmas gift from NASA to all space enthusiasts: the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA’s next space science observatory following Hubble, developed in partnership with ESA and CSA, successfully launched on December 25th, 2021. This next-generation telescope will offer astronomers the opportunity to observe the evolution and formation of stars and planets, exoplanet systems, and our solar system in ways never before possible. […]
PoliSpace Wrapped 2021
We turn our gaze along the line of the horizon, towards the dark sky, towards that destiny that runs along the red thread of ancient moiras. A new year is coming to an end, the soft laughter of a child echoes: 2022 already weakly releases its glimmer of light on the aerospace world. We turn […]
DART mission: a milestone in the planetary defense program
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a planetary defence project. It uses a smashing collision with an asteroid to alter its trajectory, and it will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impactor technique to change the course of an asteroid in space. DART is a spacecraft designed to impact an asteroid as a test […]
New PoliSpace Webinar: JWST: looking into the past!
Join the next PoliSpace webinar: JWST looking into the past!
This presentation will provide an overview of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope in our quest for the first galaxies formed out of the darkness of the early universe.