Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Leading design, development and prototyping of flight and telemetry hardware and software for commercial sub-orbital rockets that enable accessible and affordable microgravity experimentation for universities, institutions, businesses, and individuals alike
In a two-day collaboration with Orbital Solutions Monaco, I engaged students from Institut Le Rosey in constructive and intriguing debates on deep space exploration, showing both through theory and hands-on laboratory experiences in a modern fully equipped laboratory with an ISO-7 certified cleanroom, how in-house solutions developed according to our own product specifications can far outperform commercial solutions in specific cases. The students assembled their own small satellite (INISAT) following industry protocols and tested functionality in the cleanroom, further advanced by their assembly of a sounding rocket's avionic bay utilizing a flight computer with previous successful launches developed by our team. Then, the students, under my guidance, were introduced to the fundamentals of PCB design and component mounting, and developed an understanding of laboratory procedures, project evaluation and feasibility, cleanroom operations, and demonstrated great aptitude along the experience through interactions with various industrial equipment, notably laboratory power supplies, thermal imaging devices, microcontrollers, soldering (THT, SMT) stations and oscilloscopes.