Areas of Interest

• Scientific Objectives and Payload Requirements Power and Propulsion Systems
  
• Trajectory Optimization, Mission Profiles Attitude Dynamics
  
• Navigation, Guidance and Control
  
• Very Deep Space Telecommunications
  
• Sensors, Detectors and Lens Systems
  
• Nanotechnology and Robotics
  
• Perspectives and New Concepts for Mission beyond 1000 A.U. Forms of International Cooperation

For any information please contact Ms. Giusy Spinasanta giusys@athena.polito.it

The IAA Interstellar Space Exploration Committee (ISEC).
Its history and evolution
L.R.Shepherd, First President of IAA-ISEC

Exploring the Kuiper belt: an extended Pluto mission
P.K. Henry, R.J. Terrile, R.W. Maddock, H.R. Sobel
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

Roadmap to a Star
J.L.Anderson
NASA Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C., USA

The science payload and antenna of the focal space mission to 550 AU
C.Maccone
Alenia Aerospazio, Div. Spazio, Torino, Italy

On the strategy of space station injection in the point of Earth-Moon Libration
R.K. Tchuyan V.V. Bagdasaryan, A.P. Belousov, L.A. Latusev,
Moscow State Aviation Institute/ Technical University, Moscow, Russia

Mission to Fobos with the use of electric propulsion
T.M. Eneev, M.S. Kostantinov, V.A. Kudryashov, S.D. Kulikov, O.V. Papkov, G.A. Popov
IMP named after Keldysh, Moscow, Russia
Lavochkin Association, Khimki, Moscow region, Russia
Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, Russia

Theory of relativistic flight to Oort's cometary cloud
V.Banfi
Centro di Astrodinamica G. Colombo, Torino, Italy

Space qualification of robotic systems for unmanned space exploration missions
C.Viberti
Astronauts operation and space systems consultant, Torino, Italy

Hyper-interspersed Nano/MEMS-architecture design for new concepts in miniature robotics for space exploration
S.Santoli,
International Nanobiological Testbed Ltd., Rome, Italy

The Aurora Project: extimation of the optical sail parameters
G.Vulpetti, S. Scaglione,
Telespazio SpA, Rome, Italy
ENEA, C.R. Casaccia, Rome, Italy

The parachute sail with hydrostatic beam: a new concept for solar sailing
G.Genta, E.Brusa
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

The Aurora project: a new sail layout
G.Genta, E.Brusa
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

The Aurora project: removal of plastic substrate to obtain an all-metal solar sail
S.Scaglione, G.Vulpetti ,
ENEA, C.R. Casaccia, Rome, Italy
Telespazio SpA, Rome, Italy

Applying International Space Station (ISS) and solar-sail technology to the exploration and diversion of small, dark near earth objects (NEO's)
G.L. Matloff,
New York University, New York, N.Y., USA

High performance nuclear thermal propulsion system for near term exploration missions to 100 AU and beyond
J.R.Powell, J.Paniagua, G.Maise, H. Ludewig, M. Todosow,
Plus Ultra Technologies, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

The liquid annular reactor system (LARS) for deep space exploration
G.Maise, J.Paniagua, J.R.Powell, H. Ludewig, M. Todosow,
Plus Ultra Technologies, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program
M.G. Millis,
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

AIMStar: antimatter initiated microfusion for pre-cursor interstellar missions
G. Gaidos, R.A.Lewis, K.Meyer, T. Schmidt, G.A.Smith
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Revolutionary systems and technologies for missions to the outer planets
D.F.Woerner
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

Radioisotope Electric Propulsion of Sciencecraft to the Outer Solar System and Near Interstellar Space
R.J.Noble,
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA

How topological condensation of photons could make possible energy extraction in deep space?
M.Dudziak, M.Pitkanen
MODIS Corp., Washington D.C., USA & Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Electric sail design principles: Meszaros triodes
A. Meszaros, F. Paszti,
ATKI, Budapest, Hungary

Italian participation to interplanetary exploration: The Cassini-Huygens mission
E. Flamini, R. Somma
ASI, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Rome, Italy
Alenia Aerospazio, Div. Spazio, Rome, Italy

Design of magneto-optic wide-area arrays for deep space EMF studies and power system control
M.J. Dudziak, A.Ya. Chervonenkis,
MODIS Corp., Richmond Virginia, USA & Moscow, Russia

Contributions from particle physics engineering developments
A. Hanson
CLRC, London, United Kingdom

Optical tomograph of the Universe
M. Ovchinnikov, I. Rodionov
Keldish Inst. of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Scientific & Research Center "Reagent", Moscow, Russia

Imaging of extrasolar advanced terrestrial planets
J.Heidmann
Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France