TEAM
Eugenio Sorrentino
External Relations Manager
Eugenio has a deep knowledge of the space sector both in Italy and abroad.He has been the project manager of the Megsat Space Division, an Italian company that specialized in the development and launch of private satellites.He is currently deputy President of the Italian Association of Scientific Journalists.
Antonio Del Mastro
Project Coordinator
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineer with a long experience in the design, risk analysis techniques and certification of devices and systems in Space and not-Space industry. He is currently president of Mars Planet founded in 2004, as Italian chapter of the International Mars Society, and Technical Director of Mars Planet Technologies, a Space company focused on the terrestrial application of space research. His main areas of research interest are related to space medicine, robotics, virtual reality, and space economy.
STEERING COMMITTEE
Piero Messina
Senior policy & strategy office in the ESA Director General Strategy Department. He is in charge of relations with Member States and has been working on several cross-cutting projects such as space resources, space mining, in-orbit economy. Piero has been working at the European Space Agency for over 25 years in several positions and in different ESA Centers (ESOC, Germany, ESTEC, Netherlands and HQ in Paris). Before holding the present position he was, for several years, chief of staff / advisor to successive ESA Directors of human spaceflight and space exploration
Marcello Coradini
Professor of Space Systems at the University of Genoa and Trento; he works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as a representative of ESA, carrying out advanced research on Martian hydrology. With the European Space Agency he has contributed to several missions including SOHO, Cluster, Huygens / Cassini, Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta.
Enrico Flamini
Currently professor at University Chieti-Pescara “G. D’Annunzio”, Geology and Engineering Department , tenure of the course “Solar System exploration”. Until 2018 Enrico has been Scientific Director of Italian Space Agency, program manager for the Italian partecipation to the ESA Mars Express mission and to NASA MRO, principal investigator of the SIMBIO-SYS experiment on the BepiColombo ESA mission and ESA research Fellow at University of Sussex.
Elena Fantino
Dr. Elena Fantino obtained her PhD degree in Space Sciences and Technology from the University of Padua in Italy with a thesis on space astrometry and ESA's Hipparcos mission. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Astronomy Department of the same university in satellite geodesy developing algorithms for satellite gravity gradiometry in connection with ESA's GOCE mission. She developed tasks of mission analysis for the UV telescope UVISS of ASI and carried out a feasibility study for the German astrometry mission DIVA.
TEAM
Eugenio Sorrentino
External Relations Manager
Eugenio has a deep knowledge of the space sector both in Italy and abroad. He has been the project manager of the Megsat Space Division, an Italian company that specialized in the development and launch of private satellites. He is currently deputy President of the Italian Association of Scientific Journalists.
Antonio Del Mastro
Project Coordinator
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineer with a long experience in the design, risk analysis techniques and certification of devices and systems in Space and not-Space industry. He is currently president of Mars Planet founded in 2004, as Italian chapter of the International Mars Society, and Technical Director of Mars Planet Technologies, a Space company focused on the terrestrial application of space research.His main areas of research interest are related to space medicine, robotics, virtual reality, and space economy.
STEERING COMMITTEE
Piero Messina
Senior policy & strategy office in the ESA Director General Strategy Department. He is in charge of relations with Member States and has been working on several cross-cutting projects such as space resources, space mining, in-orbit economy. Piero has been working at the European Space Agency for over 25 years in several positions and in different ESA Centers (ESOC, Germany, ESTEC, Netherlands and HQ in Paris). Before holding the present position he was, for several years, chief of staff / advisor to successive ESA Directors of human spaceflight and space exploration
Marcello Coradini
Professor of Space Systems at the University of Genoa and Trento; he works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as a representative of ESA, carrying out advanced research on Martian hydrology. With the European Space Agency he has contributed to several missions including SOHO, Cluster, Huygens / Cassini, Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta.
Enrico Flamini
Currently professor at University Chieti-Pescara “G. D’Annunzio”, Geology and Engineering Department , tenure of the course “Solar System exploration”. Until 2018 Enrico has been Scientific Director of Italian Space Agency, program manager for the Italian partecipation to the ESA Mars Express mission and to NASA MRO, principal investigator of the SIMBIO-SYS experiment on the BepiColombo ESA mission and ESA research Fellow at University of Sussex.
