The Future of Humankind on the Moon
RSLab was part of a debate on the future of humankind on the Moon, during the Bergamoscienza Science Festival, alongside Giovanni Caprara (Corriere della Sera)
RIME Antenna in the first JUICE “selfie”
The cameras on board JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer) took the first pictures of the spacecraft in orbit. The Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) antenna is clerarly visible in the first “selfie.”…
JUICE successful launch!
JUICE was successfully launched aboard Ariane 5 from the European spaceport of Kourou (French Guiana) on April 14 after that the previous day’s launch attempt was postponed due to weather conditions. RSLab has the PI-ship of the Radar for Icy Moon…
NASA delivered RF elements of RIME for final integration
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently delivered the radio frequency subsystem of the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME, of which Lorenzo Bruzzone is the Principal Investigator) that will explore Jupiter’s icy moons Europa, Ganymede and Callistion…
Inauguration of the RIME Science Operation Center
The RIME Science Operation Center (SOC) at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento has been inaugurated and presented to the press! At the SOC scientists and engineers will define and generate the telemetries for…
Interview on the EnVision Mission
Media INAF has published an interview with prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone on the EnVision mission of the European Space Agency to Venus, which is currently under Phase A study.
Stefano Paterna got PhD
On Thursday February 17, Stefano Paterna successfully defended his PhD Thesis on “Advanced Methodologies for Planning and Scheduling Payload Operations for Planetary Exploration Missions”. Congratulations Stefano!
New accessible conduit detected on the subsurface of the Moon
A study, under the leadership of RSLab, has proven for the first time the existance of an accessible conduit at the bottom of a lunar Pit in the Tranbquility Sea. This has been possible by re-analayzing a synthetic aperture radar image acquired in 2010 by the Lunar…