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Nationality |
Italian |
Date of birth |
10/04/1974 |
Gender |
Male |
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Occupational field |
Aerospace (System engineering) |
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Work experience |
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Dates |
From January 2012 |
Occupation or position held |
Sub-system engineer (Power and Thermal) |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Support Fleet In-Orbit Operations. Prepare and validate all procedures and instructions for S/C where assigned as prime. Provide on-call support to Satellite controllers on-duty.Respond to anomaly conditions and initiate intervention to safe the satellite immediately after notification by the operator. Create and maintain tools to correlate power budgets to actual power consumption and keep an ongoing record of power and thermal trends to anticipate any capacity shortage condition. Support Satellite Programs. As required, support the Resident Field Office team for the different phases of the satellites under procurement. Attend regular program status meetings and report on status of current Power/thermal issues. Join the RFO in case of system and subsystem test and test results review. |
Name and address of employer |
SES Engineering - Château de Betzdorf • L-6815 Betzdorf • Luxembourg |
Type of business or sector |
Spacecraft operation for power and thermal subsystem |
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Dates |
From June 2007 to December 2011 |
Occupation or position held |
Post-Doc researcher |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Technical support to management of Italian scientific and industrial programs in the field of Observation of the Universe and Exploration (KaT trasponder and Jiram on JUNO mission, Exomars mission Italian payloads, Venus Express mission Italian payloads). Interfaces with other agencies (NASA & ESA), particularly on Exploration missions. ESA Training on Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) and use in view to participation to the ASI System Engineering Unit using of the ASI CDF; in particular studies to define: Moon robotic exploration program, SAR mission. |
Name and address of employer |
Italian Space Agency - Viale Liegi 26 00198 Rome Italy |
Type of business or sector |
System engineering, support to project management |
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Dates |
From 2/05/2007 to 30/09/2007 |
Occupation or position held |
Contractor |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Breadboard design, realization of a battery pack with integrated electronics for charge/discharge cycle control and RS422 and CANBus communications. Definition of functional and environmental tests procedure and plan and tests performing and monitoring. Management of interfaces with Carlo Gavazzi Space for the battery system development |
Name and address of employer |
SecondUniversity of Naples - Via Roma 19 Aversa (NA) Italy |
Type of business or sector |
Research & Development |
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Dates |
From 2/02/2007 to 3/03/2007 |
Occupation or position held |
Contractor |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Analysis of interaction between several space systems (APS, solar cells, electronics) with the orbital radiative environment Risk analysis and qualification tests definition on COTS components to be used in space |
Name and address of employer |
Second University of Naples - Via Roma 19 Aversa (NA) Italy |
Type of business or sector |
Research |
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Dates |
From 14/10/2005 to 14/11/2005 |
Occupation or position held |
Contractor |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Facility development for solar cells tests and characterization |
Name and address of employer |
Università di Napoli “Federico II” - P.le Tecchio 80 Napoli Italy |
Type of business or sector |
Research |
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Dates |
From 1/12/2003 to 1/12/2006 |
Occupation or position held |
Ph.D. Student |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Study of a modular power system and design of integrated electronics for battery pack manag. |
Name and address of employer |
Università di Napoli “Federico II” - P.le Tecchio 80 Napoli Italy |
Type of business or sector |
Research |
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Dates |
From 2/05/2003 to 02/10/2003 |
Occupation or position held |
Contractor |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Design, realization and test of a power system for microsatellite (ESA SSETI project, SSETIExpress satellite launched on Sept. 2005) |
Name and address of employer |
Second University of Naples - Via Roma 19 Aversa (NA) Italy |
Type of business or sector |
Research |
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Education and training |
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Dates |
March 2003 |
Title of qualification awarded |
MSc in Aeronautical Engineering |
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
Space systems, remote sensing systems, flight dynamics, propulsion, satellite attitude systems |
Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Università di Napoli “Federico II” P.le Tecchio 80 Napoli Italy |
Level in national or international classification |
110/110 cum laude |
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Dates |
Jen 2007 |
Title of qualification awarded |
Ph.D. in Arospace, Naval and Quality Systems |
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
Space power systems, Li-ion battery module, modular architectures. Li-ion technology characterization for single and series connected cells. Battery Charge/discharge management through integrated electronics. |
Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Università di Napoli “Federico II” P.le Tecchio 80 Napoli Italy |
Level in national or international classification |
Excellent |
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Dates |
Jul 2004 |
Title of qualification awarded |
Specialistic course SREC04(Space Radiation Environment and its Effects on Spacecraft Components and Systems) |
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
Space systems interaction with radiation environment |
Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
CNES |
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Dates |
Jul 2008 |
Title of qualification awarded |
Alpbach Summer school2008 “Sample Return from Moon, Asteroids and Comets”. |
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
Design of sample return mission from the scientific and technical points of view. Particularly in charge of mission design, power system design. Working in international team is another fundamental skill given by the school |
Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
FFG, ESA, ISSI |
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Dates |
April-June 2009 |
Title of qualification awarded |
The Logic of Microspace Small and Low cost space systems |
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
Mr. Rick Fleeter (AEROASTRO president) gives technical and economic justifications in using microsatellite platforms for several applications |
Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
ASI and AeroAstro |
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Personal skills and competences |
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Mother tongue(s) |
Italian |
Other language(s) |
English, French (basic) |
Social skills and competences |
Experiences such as the Alpbach summer school and the job in the ASI concurrent engineering facility taught me the difficulties but also the pleasure to work in a group of people with different nationality and background. Indeed, my Italian culture allows me to act and interface easily within large international groups |
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Organisational skills and competences |
Skilled to realize and perform an University lessons brief cycle and/or a presentation acquired with the activities at University of Naples Skilled to organize and monitor the industrial and/or scientific activities to optimize development time and resources in order to meet the delivery date/cost at completion acquired during the management activities in ASI |
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Technical skills and competences |
Excellent knowledge of ground system and operations for telecommunication satellites. Excellent skills in power system design and study; Excellent skills in battery systems design and realization; Excellent skills in power system tests. Excellent skill in system engineering, particularly the interfaces problems and device testing both in lab. and in space simulated environment Excellent skills of internet and LAN net, embedded systems, Microchip PIC microcontroller. Excellent skills of communication protocol RS232, RS485, CAN ad ECAN, MIL-STD1553, SpaceWire and I2C. Excellent skills of laboratory instruments use and management (Keithley®, Kepco® power supply, multimeters, welders, National Instruments acquisition boards GPIB and DAQ). Good experience of working in clean room and using thermal-vacuum chamber following the ECSS and MIL standards. |
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Computer skills and competences |
C, Matlab and Labview Microsoft Office (including Project) and SUN OpenOffice packets; DIA for creating technical diagrams; ConceptDraw V for creating Gantt diagrams e WBS; OrCad (Capture e Layout). |
Driving licence |
B |
Additional information |
Scientific Publications: 1. Del Vecchio Blanco C., D’Errico M., Ciofaniello L. 2003. Preliminary Design and Test of a Li-Ion Battery Pack with Integrated Charge/Discharge Electronics for Micro/Nano Satellites Applications. XVII AIDAA Congress Sept 15-19, 2003 / Rome, Italy. 2. D’Errico M., Del Vecchio Blanco C., Gardi R., Tancredi U. 2004. Auniversity space technology program to design and validate new and potentially cost-effective hardware. Acta Astronautica 56 (2005) 285 – 296. 3. Del Vecchio Blanco C., D’Errico M. 2004. Integrated Battery Module Based on Li-ion Cells and COTS ICs for Advanced Microsatellites. IEEE Aerospace Conference 2004, March 6-13 Big Sky, Montana. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE ,Volume: 4 ; Pages:2763 - 2773 4. D’Errico M., Del Vecchio Blanco C., Galantini P. 2004. Batterybased on Li-Ion and COTS technologies: a test case to implement high performance, autonomy, and modularity for future microsatellites. 55th International Astronautical Congress oct 2004-Vancouver, Canada 5. Del Vecchio Blanco C., Galantini P.,D’Errico M., 2005. Li-ion modular battery pack COTS technology composed for multimission high performance microsatellites. 7th European Space Power Conference. May 2005, Stresa, Italy. 6. De Chiara A., Del Vecchio Blanco C., D’Errico M., Grassi M. 2005. Navigation system for radiocontrolled cars model: a test case for satellites formations guidance navigation and control problems. XVIII AIDAA Congress Sept. 19-22 Volterra (PI) 7. Pitterà T., Infante F., Del Vecchio Blanco C., Pulcino V., D’Errico M. 2005. Electrical Power Subsystem For Microsatellites: Design, Realization, And Test. XVIII AIDAA Congress Sept. 19-22 Volterra (PI). 8. Del Vecchio Blanco C., D’Errico M. 2006. Adistributed design architecture for Li-ion battery: integration of COTS ICs, µCs and CAN bus. IEEE Aerospace Conference 2006, March Big Sky, Montana. Proceedings. 9. Del Vecchio Blanco C., D’Errico M. 2006. Li-ion autonomous battery module for space vehicles. 57th International Astronautical Congress 2006; Valencia; Spain; 2-6 Oct. 2006. pp. 1-11. Proceedings. 10. Del Vecchio Blanco C., D’Errico M. 2006. Exploiting the can bus as a potential interface for future aerospace vehicles based on a modular, intelligent, and autonomous architecture. 57th International Astronautical Congress 2006; Valencia; Spain; 2-6 Oct. 2006. pp. 1-11. Proceedings 11. F. Esposito, C. Del Vecchio Blanco, G. Fasano. Avionics Integration And Test For Rover Applications. 2007. XIX AIDAA National congress. 17-21 Sept. 2007. Proceedings 12. Del Vecchio Blanco C., D'Errico M., Boer F., Galantini P. Innovative Solutions For Small Battery Packages. 58th International Astronautical Congress Hyderabad – India Sept. 2007. Proceedings. 13. Weise J., Weiler M., Del Vecchio Blanco C., McCrum M., Bexkens F. et al. 2008. “SAMOSA - a sample return mission to a main belt comet”. Poster to the 59th International Astronautical Congress – Glasgow, Scotland 9 September -3 October 2008. 14. Portelli Claudio, Davighi Andrea, Del Vecchio Blanco Carlo, Basso Valter, Belvedere Giampiero, Rosazza Prin Paolo. 2008. ASI CEF+DBTE: Future applications of concurrent engineering methodology integrated with knowledge based economic analyses. 3rd International Workshop on System & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications (SECESA 2008), 15-17 2008 Rome, Italy. 15. Rapporto studio in ASI CEF di fattibilità della Missione di un Rover Lunare Italiano studio RLI (Rover Lunare Italiano) – Documento ASI RS-IPC-2010 Rev A del 22-02-2010. 16. Del Vecchio Blanco C., Duca E., Facchinetti C., Pellegrini R.C., Pirrotta S., Portelli C., Salatti M. 2010. Unmanned lunar exploration: from scientific needs to a preliminary mission study for the Italian Lunar Rover. 61st International Astronautical Congress, Prague, 2010. Prodeedings 17. Battagliere M. L., Casonato G., Crisconio M., Del Vecchio Blanco C., Duca E., Facchinetti C., Paolillo F., Pellegrini R. C., Pirrotta S., Porfilio M., Portelli C., Salatti M., Valentini G. 2010. First Studies of ASI Concurrent Engineering Facility (CEF). 4th International Workshop on System & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications (SECESA 2010), Oct. 13- 15 2010 - Lausanne, Switzerland. |
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Reference contacts
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Prof. Marco D'Errico Associate professor of space systems Seconda Università di Napoli Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale e Meccanica Via Roma, 29 – 81029 Aversa (CE)
Eng.Paolo Galantini Design and Development Dept. Manager Galileo Avionica Via Montefeltro,8 20156 - Milano Italy
Dr. Enrico Flamini Italian Space Agency Chief Scientist Viale Liegi, 26 00198 Roma, Italia
Dr. Sylvie Espinasse European Space Agency Human Spaceflight Directorate ESA-ESTEC Keplerlaan 1 2201 Noordwijk, Netherlands
Dr. Denis Moura Project Officer for Space Programmes European Defence Agency Rue des Drapiers 17-23 B-1050 Brussels (Belgium) |
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