MY PUBLICATIONS

MY PUBLICATIONS

Last Updated: 10 January 2010


BOOKS
Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors (with David M. Harland), published by Springer-Praxis in 2004
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 1 - The Golden Age 1957-1982 (with David M. Harland), published by Springer Praxis in 2007
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 2 - Hiatus and Renewal 1983-1996 (with David M. Harland), published by Springer Praxis in 2008
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 3 - The Modern Era 1997-2009 (with David M. Harland), to be published by Springer Praxis in 2010

GRADUATION THESIS
Studio di ottimizzazione a energia minima per un manipolatore per l'esplorazione di Marte, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, July 2000 (thesis advisor: Prof. Amalia Ercoli Finzi)
Thesis Slides

ARTICLES
A Study of Operational Space Minimum Energy Trajectory Planning for a Robotic Manipulator for Solar System Exploration, unpublished (with Amalia Ercoli Finzi)
La Cina Punta alla Luna, Le Stelle, October 2003, 54-61
CONTOUR: Architettura Sbagliata, Le Stelle, December 2003, 25-27
Earth and Space Science Payload of the Shen Zhou Orbital Modules, JBIS, Vol 57, September/October 2004 (courtesy of the British Interplanetary Society)
ESRO and the Deep Space: European Planetary Exploration Planning Before ESA, JBIS, Vol 59, June 2006 (courtesy of the British Interplanetary Society)
Chang'e and Chandrayan lead the way In: Praxis Space Exploration 2007
Europe's "Arrows to the Sun", Two Gravity and Solar Probe proposals from ESRO and ESA , JBIS, Vol 61, March 2008 (this paper was presented at the BIS European/US Space Conference in November 2007). You can download the conference presentation
Seneca e le comete di Nerone , Le Stelle, May 2009, 56-60

BOOK REVIEWS
Giorgio Di Bernardo Nicolai: Nella Nebbia, In Attesa del Sole. Breve Storia di Luigi Broglio, Le Stelle, June 2006, 68
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle: La Cometa, Le Stelle, February 2008, 70-71
James Lequeux: Le Verrier - Savant Magnifique et Détesté, Le Stelle, January 2010, 75


VARIOUS LETTERS
Air International, January 1992, 47
Flight International, 30 September - 6 October 1992, 38
L'Astronomia, March 1995, 3
L'Astronomia, November 2000, 2-3
Sky & Telescope, December 2004, 13
Sky & Telescope, August 2008, 12


MISCELLANEOUS
Personal Album (Italian aircraft of the 1930s), Aeroplane, May 2007, 44-45

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