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Davide Costigliola and Lorenzo Casalino
The development of autonomous guidance control and navigation systems for spacecraft would greatly benefit applications such as debris removals or on-orbit servicing, where human intervention is not practical. Within this context, inspired by Autonomous ...
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Luigi Mascolo and Lorenzo Casalino
Optimal low-thrust trajectories for the direct escape from the Earth?s sphere of influence, starting from Sun-Earth or Earth-Moon L2, are analyzed with an indirect optimization method. The dynamic model considers four-body gravitation and JPL ephemeris; ...
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Lorenzo Casalino, Andrea Ferrero, Filippo Masseni and Dario Pastrone
Hybrid rocket engines are a green alternative to solid rocket motors and may represent a low-cost alternative to kerosene fueled rockets, while granting performance and control features similar to that of typical storable liquid rocket engines. In this w...
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Lorenzo Casalino, Filippo Masseni and Dario Pastrone
Optimization of Hybrid Rocket Engines at Politecnico di Torino began in the 1990s. A comprehensive review of the related research activities carried out in the last three decades is here presented. After a brief introduction that retraces driving motivat...
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Lorenzo Casalino, Filippo Masseni and Dario Pastrone
The optimal design of the propulsion system for a potential Mars Ascent Vehicle is analyzed, in the context of the Mars Sample Return Mission. The Mars Ascent Vehicle has to perform an initial ascent phase from the surface and then circularize into a 170...
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Alberto Racca, Tom Verstraete and Lorenzo Casalino
This paper addresses the problem of the design optimization of turbomachinery components under thermo-mechanical constraints, with focus on a radial turbine impeller for turbocharger applications. Typically, turbine components operate at high temperature...
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Lorenzo Casalino, Filippo Masseni and Dario Pastrone
An electrically driven pump-fed cycle for a hybrid rocket engine is proposed and compared to a simpler gas-pressurized feed system. A liquid-oxygen/paraffin-based fuel hybrid rocket engine which powers the third stage of a Vega-like launcher is considere...
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