MAURO PONTANI

Starting on Mon 24 February 2025, the lectures of the course Advanced Spacecraft Dynamics will be given in class, according to the official time schedule, published at

https://www.ing.uniroma1.it/en/students/class-timetables

All students interested in attending the course are invited to fill and submit the google form at

https://forms.gle/1ot4MUwyYwKiGFFw7

for their inclusion in the mailing list. This also provides access to a shared folder with homeworks and supplementary material related to the Course.

Further info (on the class time schedule, lecture rooms, and so on) is provided in the personal website at

https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/mauropontani-eng/info-and-announc...

Information on recent research topics is also provided in the personal website at

https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/mauropontani-eng/research

All pdf documents in this website refer to the course Spaceflight Mechanics, with the exception of "ADVANCED SPACECRAFT DYNAMICS - Course program and exam info" and "ADVANCED SPACECRAFT DYNAMICS - Errata corrige of the book".

Mauro Pontani currently covers the position of Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Department of Astronautical, Electrical, and Energy Engineering, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and a member of the Astrodynamics Committee of the International Astronautical Federation. He was Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, and at Rice University, Houston, TX, several times from 2004 through 2017. He earned the Italian National Qualification for the position of Full Professor of Aerospace Engineering in 2017. He is a member of the Academic Board of the Ph.D. Course "Energy and Environment" at Sapienza.
His research interests are in the field of astrodynamics and aerospace trajectory optimization, and specifically include aerospace mission analysis and design, analytical and numerical methods for trajectory optimization, guidance and control of aerospace vehicles, dynamic game theory applied to aerospace trajectories, satellite constellations, launch, ascent and descent vehicles, and satellite release systems. He is author of more than 120 scientific publications (including 1 book and 72 journal papers), and currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Acta Astronautica, Aerotecnica Missili e Spazio, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and the International Journal of Aerospace Engineering. He took part to more than 20 research projects, as researcher or principal investigator.