Volunteering Team

Junior Students

Silvia
Righetti
PCB design
Investigation on the behavior of a PV generator by means of a CAE simulation tool.
Alessandro
Amman
– Electronic design;
– Visual Basic programming;
– Test Equipment Interfacing
Remo
Radaelli
Real Time programming and PC interfaces for signal analysis.
Kabil
Nageswarakurukkal
Web design.
Vanessa
Costanzi
Investigation of the behavior of a PV generator by means of a CAE simulation tool.

Advanced Students

Massimo
Maiolo
– He partecipated to the CubeSat workshop and to the SmallSat Conference in Logan (US, UT), August 2005.
– Internship at SpaceLab during summer 2006.
– Investigation of the thermal behavior of electronic components in a vacuum chamber.
– Firmware programming: antenna rotor control; digital – FSK coder/decoder (PIC, ASM); AX.25 (MSP430, C).
– Support activities in and outdoor.
Davide
Vosti
– Internship at SpaceLab during summer 2006.
– Investigation of the behavior of a microcontroller memory running in a radiation environment (rad level as allowed in a physics lab – too low).
– Firmware programming: morse encoder / decoder (PIC, ASM); AX.25 (MSP430, C).
– Web search, contacts with one of the Ham key people.

Professors, Lecturers and Partners

G. SalvadèPhysics, Numerical modeling, Member of the SSL Management Group
A. GrafPhysics, Mathematics, Member of the SSL Management Group
M. LuraschiPhysics, Astronomy fan.
G. KauffmannEMC, Instrumentation control, HB9TYG.
P. Rezzonico, A. PiattiMathematics
R. Pamini, HB9MGXOur in house reference for Ham radio related issues.
G. DozioConverters for photovoltaic applications, Maximum Power Tracker.
S. BalemiConsultant for control related issues (i.e. Momentum wheel).
A. ConsoliConsultant EDAC and communication protocols.
R. Ponti, M. Dotta
A. Ortona, W. Amaro
Structures, Mechanical and Material group. CAD design.
M. BarbatoThermal analysis.
D. ChianeseThe photovoltaic top-notch
P. Speranza
L. Tognetti
Our top technicians: of course they’re payed for, but just hope they never ask to be payed for the time they really give to the department’s space endeavour!