The Department
Welcome to the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano (DAER), the only university department in Italy entirely dedicated to aerospace studies. It inherits the long and successful aeronautical and space tradition that the Politecnico di Milano has fostered since the early days of air transport.
Research
AERODYNAMIC TESTING OF A FLYING HUMANOID ROBOT: DAER’S CONTRIBUTION TO A WIND TUNNEL CAMPAIGN
20/06/2025

Conferences
NEW HELICOPTER FLIGHT TEST METHOD AWARDED AT THE SFTE-EC SYMPOSIUM
20/06/2025

News
41st CYCLE - ADMISSION TO DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
16/06/2025

Education
DR. JING YEN COST AWARENESS SCHOLARSHIP FOR INTEREST AND IMPROVEMENT IN AFFORDABILITY OR ROTORCRAFT
16/06/2025

Education
EDUCATIONAL FLIGHT TESTING ACTIVITIES WITH LEONARDO HELICOPTERS
13/06/2025

Research
BACK TO DEEP SPACE: POLITECNICO DI MILANO PREPARES FOR APOPHIS CLOSE ENCOUNTER
09/06/2025

Research
FULL-SCALE WIND TUNNEL PROTOTYPE EQUIPPED WITH THE MORPHING AILERON
06/06/2025

News
See allTOWARD A SAFER SPACE: PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES OF THE SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
20/06/2025
Seminar June 20, 2025, from 10:00 till 12:00 - Classroom LM.6, Building B15, Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via la Masa 34, Milano
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AERODYNAMIC TESTING OF A FLYING HUMANOID ROBOT: DAER’S CONTRIBUTION TO A WIND TUNNEL CAMPAIGN
20/06/2025
The Aerodynamics Laboratory of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano (DAER) was involved within a collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in a comprehensive wind tunnel campaign on a full-scale flying humanoid robot.
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NEW HELICOPTER FLIGHT TEST METHOD AWARDED AT THE SFTE-EC SYMPOSIUM
20/06/2025
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41st CYCLE - ADMISSION TO DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
16/06/2025
New PhD positions with scholarships for specific research topics are available at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology.
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DR. JING YEN COST AWARENESS SCHOLARSHIP FOR INTEREST AND IMPROVEMENT IN AFFORDABILITY OR ROTORCRAFT
16/06/2025
Daniele Granata, PhD candidate at DAER, working at Rotorcraft Aerodynamics Lab with Professor Alex Zanotti, has been awarded with the 2025 Dr. Jing Yen Cost Awareness scholarship for interest and improvement in affordability or rotorcraft.
05/10
EDUCATIONAL FLIGHT TESTING ACTIVITIES WITH LEONARDO HELICOPTERS
13/06/2025
Once againt this year, the Flight Testing graduate course, M.Sc. Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, renewed the educational activities with Leonardo Helicopters with eight flight missions on board instrumented helicopter prototypes of the AW139 and AW169 models.
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GIORNATA SULLA MOBILITÀ AEREA SOSTENIBILE
11/06/2025
Siamo lieti di invitarvi alla giornata di incontro dedicata alla Mobilità Aerea Sostenibile che si terrà il prossimo 11 Giugno 2025.
07/10
WIND TUNNEL TESTS ON LUS - 222 AIRCRAFT
10/06/2025
A successful wind tunnel campaign was performed at POLIMI-GVPM on the LUS - 222 aircraft model in the frame of a collaboration between DAER-POLIMI and EEA Aircraft & Maintenance.
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GIOVANNI CONSOLATI TALKS ABOUT HIS RESEARCH ON FRONTIERE
09/06/2025
Giovanni Consolati Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano, was interviewed in Frontiere of the Politecnico di Milano about his research activities in the area of antimatter.
09/10
DIGITAL HORIZONS: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION FOR THE AEROSPACE OF THE FUTURE
09/06/2025
TXT Group, in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, invites you to a conference dedicated to the future of aviation on June, 9th 2025.
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Experimental Labs
See allTechnological Laboratory
The Technological Lab of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology aims to support the internal teaching and research activities although it also offers its expertise externally. The support provided ranges from the design of single parts or complete equipment, to the processing of metallic materials carried out with the use of CNC equipment and to the creation of tools and components in composite and advanced composite materials using different production technologies up to 3D printing.
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SpLab - Space Propulsion Laboratory
The Space Propulsion Laboratory (SPLab) operates in the field of space propulsion with reference to solid, liquid and hybrid propellant systems, from both experimental and numerical viewpoints. The research group is now committed to developing innovative solution, such as low environmental impact formulations of solid propellant, unconventional hybrid engine configurations for in-space applications and green oxidizer-fuel combinations designed for new generation storable liquid propulsion. Since 1976, year of foundation, it is also consistently active in the study of combustion of solid phase energy materials with research activities on stationary combustion rates, static and dynamic extinction, deflagration limit pressure, characterisation of the combustion products, ignition and transient combustion phenomena. The SpLab collaborates regularly both in the academic field and in the industrial sector with other research centers at a national and international level.In 2018 it founded ReActive-Powder Technology, a Politecnico di Milano spin-off, with expertise in making high performance energy materials through mechanical activation processes.
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LaST - Transport Safety Lab
La.S.T. is the transport safety lab of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology. It has been involved in passive safety since the 60s. Its mission is to improve passive safety in transport thanks to the synergy between the use of numerical simulation techniques and experimental activities. Inside the laboratory there are a crash test sled, several drop test machines, some high-velocity impact launchers and several conducting static tests' equipment.
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Aerodynamic Laboratory
The Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory is equipped with different wind tunnels of various dimensions, typology and test regimes. The experimental equipment enables to perform a wide range of tests. The main plant is a closed circuit wind tunnel with a test section of 1.5m x 1m and a maximum wind velocity of 55m/s. The experimental activity mainly includes pressure and force measurements, hot wire anemometry and particle image velocimetry (PIV). Tests are carried out in various research fields, from basic fluid dynamics to industrial applications. A large part of the laboratory activity is also carried out in the GVPM wind tunnel.
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Experimental Test Laboratory
The Experimental Test Laboratory is at the service of thesis works, reasearch and tests for external customers; it is equippeed with testing machines, measurement instrumentation, data acquisition systems. It also performes extensometric tests.
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