MAURO PONTANI

Starting from Mon 22 September, all the lectures of the course Spaceflight Mechanics will be given in class (on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays), according to the official time schedule, published at
https://ici.web.uniroma1.it/node/388

A tutorship for the course Spaceflight Mechanics, aimed at providing some basic prerequisites, as well as complements, exercises, and clarifications on the course subjects, is offered to all interested students, starting from Friday 3 October and on all subsequent Fridays, at 15:00 in the zoom room,
https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/2154125855

The course program, exam info, together with the lecture notes, are available at
https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/mauropontani-eng/courses

Due to institutional commitments, no lecture will be given on 29 September as well as on 1 and 2 October.

In case of strikes, if lectures are given (which is usual), then the related recording (covered in a.y. 21/22) is uploaded in a shared folder. The same folder also includes the material and recordings of the tutorship (of current a.y.) and is updated every 2 weeks. To enter the shared folder, please fill and submit the following google form:
https://forms.gle/npnKsVxHidsGxXVu7

For students with specific justification (e.g., working students, international students with pending visa, students with upcoming B.S. graduation), recordings of a.y. 21/22 are available. These are updated every 4 weeks. To enter the shared folder with these recordings, please fill and submit the following google form:
https://forms.gle/N3zFAQNUqwb9U4KT7

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 in Aeronautical and Space Engineering at Sapienza and coordinator of the Astrodynamics Research Group 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.