Space Debris Collection - Professor Guglielmo Aglietti

Duration: 49 mins
Publication date: 08 Jul 2019

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RemoveDEBRIS is aimed at performing key Active Debris Removal (ADR) technology demonstrations (e.g capture, deorbiting) representative of an operational scenario during a low-cost mission using novel key technologies for ADR

Keywords:: GPS

SatNav

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astronomy

debris

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space debris

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Professor Guglielmo S Aglietti

Surrey Space Centre, Surrey Space Centre Director, Project Principal Investigator

Graduated with a first class honour degree in Aerospace Engineering my career started as a stress analyst at Alenia Spazio (Turin I) working at the Columbus module of the International Space Station, then worked at ESA-ESTEC (Noodrwijk NL) on various payloads for the Space Shuttle programme, and in 1995 moved to the University of Southampton where I obtained a PhD and later a Lectureship in Aerospace Structural Dynamics. Progressed though my academic career and I was awarded a personal Chair in Aerospace Structures becoming the head of the Astronautics Research Group.In 2013 I moved to the Surrey Space Centre, to take up the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Space Engineering co-sponsored by Surrey Satellite Technology, and later became director of the Centre.

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