Personal information

Nationality

Italian

Date of birth

09.06.1982

Gender

Male

Desired employment / Occupational field

Flight Dynamics Engineer

Work experience

Dates

From January 2008 to Present

Occupation or position held

Aerospace engineer and software developer

Main activities and responsibilities

• Software development for Flight dynamics and Mission analysis (ASI MAGIA mission);
• Payload preliminary design (ASI MAGIA gravimetric experiment);
• System engineering (ASI SISMA project);
• Earth Observation imagery processing and geo-localization (ASI SRV project);
• Preparation of Tender Proposals (Qualified Partner in ESA Frame Contracts 2010-2014);
• R&D (orbit determination, space debris, SSA, solar sail propulsion, lunar fundamental physics, numerical techniques, tracking techniques, support to ESA ESMO flight dynamics team).

Name and address of employer

Galileian Plus S.r.l., Via Tiburtina 755, I-00159, Roma, Italy

Type of business or sector

Missionanalysis and design, Scientific data processing and experiment design for space missions, System engineering, GNSS solutions for precise positioning.

Education and training

Dates

From January 2005 to February 2008

Title of qualification awarded

Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Astronautica(Master Degree in Astronautic Engineering)

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Astrodynamics – Space flight dynamics – Space environment and experiments – Orbital determination – Space mission design – Automatics and control of aerospace systems – Attitude control systems – Thermal control – Electric propulsion – Gas dynamics – Chemical propulsion – Electronics and Telecommunications – Electrical power subsystems – Materials for space structures.

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

“Sapienza” Università di Roma

Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale (School of Aerospace Engineering)

Vote in national classification

110/110 e lode

Dates

From September 2001 to December 2004

Title of qualification awarded

Laurea di Primo Livello in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (1^st Level Degree in Aerospace Engineering)

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Aerodynamics – Aerospace Propulsion – Aerospace Structures and Materials – Applied Mechanics – Chemistry – Economy – Electric Systems – Engine Calculation Laboratory – Experimental Physics Laboratory – Flight Mechanics –  Heat Transfer – Informatics – Mathematics – Physics – Thermodynamics.

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Facoltà di Ingegneria Aerospaziale (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering)

Vote in national classification

110/110 e lode

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue(s)

Italian

Other language(s)

English, French

Social skills and competences

The following skills have been gained during my working experience and in academic laboratory activities:

• Excellent communication and relationship skills, also in an international team;
• Capability to effectively work in a team.

Relevant seminars:

• “Story of Astronautics and Methods of Scientific Information”, held by Giorgio Di Bernardo (scientific journalist) at School of Aerospace Engineering (June 2006);
• “Human Factor Engineering for Cosmonauts and Pilots”, held by Dr. Lorenzo Mezzadri (PhD in cognitive psychology) at School of Aerospace Engineering (March 2006).

Organisational skills and competences

The following skills have been gained during my working experience and in academic laboratory activities:

• Team leading, planning and organising skills, acquired during the experience as team leader of a 14 students flight dynamics team, in the frame of ESA ESMO project (from November 2006 to February 2008);
• Ability to work both autonomously, under supervision, and in an interdisciplinary team (industrial and scientific);
• Experience in projects with stringent schedules.

Technical skills and competences

The following skills have been gained during my working experience and in academic laboratory activities:

• Participation to ESMO workshop about satellite operations and flight dynamics, coordinated by David Evans at ESOC (July 2008);
• Experience in developing simulation tools for orbital dynamics (propagation of complex physical models, ephemeris tools, optimization) and mission analysis;
• Development of on board-software (real-time) for the PIC processor of the small rocket Arturo, at the School of Aerospace Engineering (“Sapienza”, University of Roma);
• Experience with the on-board software (for a Rabbit processor) and electronics of the micro-satellite Unisat-4, at the School of Aerospace Engineering (“Sapienza”, University of Roma);
• Knowledge at preliminary design level of all satellite subsystems (in particular, thermal and power);
• Experience in applied electronics, acquired through personal and academic studies and laboratory practice:
  • Small rocket Arturo data acquisition electronics AIV;
  • Solid state launch controller for small rockets (design and AIV);
  • VHF Transmitter (design and AIV) for a pulsed tone, proportional to sensed temperature (in the frame of the didactical project “Astronautica in Classe” for high schools in Roma, as basic approach to telemetry transmission concept);
• Strong problem solving attitude and target oriented behaviour;
• Strong system-minded approach.

Relevant seminars:

• “System and Space Missions Engineering”, held by Ing. Claudio Galeazzi (ASI) at School of Aerospace Engineering (June 2006);
• “Advanced Topics in Astrodynamics”, held by Prof. Bernard Kaufman, at School of Aerospace Engineering;
• “Interplanetary Navigation – Examples from the Cassini/Huygens Mission”, held by Dr. Ing. Jeremy B. Jones (Cassini/Huygens Navigation Team Chief – JPL Pasadena, California), at School of Aerospace Engineering.

Computer skills and competences

The following skills have been gained during my working experience and in academic laboratory activities:

• Excellent programmer in C, C++ (object oriented programming), FORTRAN, Matlab and IDL;
• Some experience in shell/bash scripting, batch scripting, and HTML programming;
• Experience in Test Driven Development (JUnit for Java, Cfix for C/C++);
• Little experience in Java programming;
• Developer of 2D and 3D OpenGL graphical applications for orbital scenarios visualization;
• Knowledge of the operative systems:
  • Microsoft Windows XP (excellent);
  • Linux Fedora 11 and Ubuntu (good).
• Knowledge of the programs:
  • Microsoft Office suite, Open Office suite, DIA, LATEX, ITT ENVI, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and 2008 Express Edition, Netbeans IDE, UltraVNC, Putty SSH Client, VMWare Player, Nokia QT (excellent);
  • Autodesk AutoCAD, Altium Protel, AGI STK (good);
  • SCOS2000, Eclipse IDE (basic).

Other skills and competences

The following skills have been gained during my working experience and in academic laboratory activities:

• Experience in the usage and administration of version control systems (SVN, CVS);
• Experience in the usage of issue tracking systems (JIRA);
• Good knowledge of ECSS norms, applied to:
  • Phase A mission design for ASI MAGIA mission (ground systems and operations);
  • Phase A and B flight dynamics software design for ESA ESMO mission (space software engineering and quality assurance);
  • Preparation of several proposals for ASI and ESA (project management, space software engineering and quality assurance, ground systems and operations).
• Contribution to project milestone preparation:
  • ASI MAGIA SRR and PDR;
  • ESA ESMO SRR and PDR;
  • ASI SRV CDR and QR;
  • ASI SISMA CDR, QR and AR.
• Flexibility, passion, and great will to learn and to be up to date.

Relevant experiences:

• Participation to the launch campaign of Arturo small rocket;
• Participation to the launch campaign of Unisat 4 satellite, at Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) – July 2007;
• Participation to a launch campaign of Nike Hercules missiles, at Poligono Interforze del Salto di Quirra– Perdasdefogu – March 27/30, 2006;
• 1° Informative Seminar about missile systems Nike Hercules and Spada/Aspide, at 1ª Brigata Aerea– Padova– March 20/24, 2006.

Driving licence

Category B

Additional information

Publications:

• M. Fermi, et al. – “The lunar gravity mission MAGIA: preliminary design and performances” – Experimental Astronomy (2010) – DOI: 10.1007/s10686-010-9188-z.
• M. Gregnanin, et al. – “Mapping Lunar Mascons on the Hidden Side of the Moon: Gravitational Field Measurement through a Micro-Satellite Mission” – Acta Astronautica (2008) – DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.01.067 – Presented at IAC 2006 – Valencia, Spain, October 4, 2006.

Thesis:

• M. Gregnanin – “Stabilità delle Orbite Frozen Lunari” (Stability of Lunar Frozen Orbits) – February 2008 (Master Degree Thesis);
• M. Gregnanin – “NEP Propulsive System for a Mission to Mars” – December 2004 (1st Level Degree Thesis).

Papers:

• A. Coradini, et al. – “MAGIA Phase-A Study Report” – December 2008;
• M. Musacchio, et al. – “ASI-SRV General Purpose Modules for the Pre-Processing of Remote Sensed Optical Data” – Presented at 2008 Second workshop on USE of Remote Sensing Techniques for Monitoring Volcanoes and Seismogenic Areas (USEReST 2008) – Napoli, Italy, November 11-14, 2008;
• M. Fermi, P. Bender, B. Bertotti, M. Chersich, M. Gregnanin, L. Iess and L. Simone – “Investigation of the lunar interior with a microwave interferometer” – 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 13-20 July 2008, Montréal, Canada, p. 868;
• A. Coradini, et al. – “MGF-3SC: a Three-Spacecraft Mission for Science and Geodesy of the Moon” – Presented at 9th International Conference about Exploration and Utilization of the Moon (ICEUM9) – Sorrento, Italy, November 2007;
• M. Gregnanin – “Appunti di Traiettorie Interplanetarie” (“Interplanetary Trajectories Notes”) – June 2006;
• M. Gregnanin – “Modelli Atmosferici e Studio Numerico del Flusso Attorno ad un Satellite” (“Atmospheric Models and Numeric Study of the Flux around a Satellite”) – January 2006;
• M. Gregnanin – “Appunti di Propulsori Elettrici” (“Electric Thrusters Notes”) – September 2005;

Military service: exemption due to national law.

References supplied on request.