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
FLY-MI EUROAVIA MILANO TRIUMPHS AT UAS CHALLENGE 2025
31/07/2025
Events
SUMMER PARTY 2025
22/07/2025
Research
SECOND TECHNICAL REVIEW MEETING FOR THE ASI-ISTAR PROJECT
18/07/2025
Education
DAER SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
11/07/2025
Research
AETHER COMPLETES ITS FIRST CAMPAIGN AS A THREE-SURFACE PLANE WITH REDUNDANT LONGITUDINAL CONTROL
01/07/2025
Education
EDUCATIONAL FLIGHT TESTING ACTIVITIES WITH PIPISTREL
30/06/2025
Education
Ph.D. COURSE IN SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
30/06/2025
News
See allFLY-MI EUROAVIA MILANO TRIUMPHS AT UAS CHALLENGE 2025
31/07/2025
Fly-Mi EUROAVIA Milano, a student association of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano, has made an impressive debut at the UAS Challenge 2025, earning 3rd place overall and the prestigious Safety Award among 42 competing teams from around the world
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SUMMER PARTY 2025
22/07/2025
On July 22nd, the staff of the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano gathered for a festive evening at the foot of Building B12, which houses the department’s offices.
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SECOND TECHNICAL REVIEW MEETING FOR THE ASI-ISTAR PROJECT
18/07/2025
On July 8th and 9th, the SPIRE research Lab, with the collaboration of COMPASS Lab, had the opportunity to organize and attend the second technical review for the ISTAR project at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, in Naples.
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LIDAR DATA PROCESSING FOR SPACECRAFT RELATIVE NAVIGATION
17/07/2025
PhDAER Seminar July 17, 2025, from 14:00 until 15:30 - Sala Consiglio DAER, Building B12, 2nd Floor, Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via la Masa 34, Milano
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DAER SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
11/07/2025
Dal 30 giugno al 4 luglio 2025 si è svolta la XV edizione della Summer School del Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali (DAER) del Politecnico di Milano.
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AETHER COMPLETES ITS FIRST CAMPAIGN AS A THREE-SURFACE PLANE WITH REDUNDANT LONGITUDINAL CONTROL
01/07/2025
Aether (Airplane in Three-Surface Configuration with Redundant Longitudinal Control) is a flying platform developed to study a specific aircraft configuration featuring three lifting surfaces, where both the canard and tail surfaces are equipped with movable control surfaces, enabling redundant longitudinal control.
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EDUCATIONAL FLIGHT TESTING ACTIVITIES WITH PIPISTREL
30/06/2025
For the second year, the Flight Testing graduate course, M.Sc. Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, renewed the educational activities with Pipistrel with eight flight missions on board two instrumented two-seater airplanes: the Explorer and its unique fully-electric sibling, the Velis Electro.
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Ph.D. COURSE IN SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
30/06/2025
On June 20th 2025, the first edition of the Ph.D. course in Space Traffic Management (STM) ended. Offered within the Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. program
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HE THREAD PROJECT - THERMITE REACTIONS ASSISTING SATELLITE DEMISE
27/06/2025
The THREAD project - THERMITE REACTIONS ASSISTING SATELLITE DEMISE - funded under HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDER, offers an innovative solution to the challenge of the growing number of decommissioned satellites returning to Earth and surviving re-entry, which poses safety risks and environmental concerns on ground.
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CERIMONIA PER IL CONFERIMENTO DEL PREMIO AEROSPACE WOMEN AWARD 2024 (AWA2024)
26/06/2025
The Aerospace Women Award is an unmissable event for the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of the Politecnico di Milano, which aims to enhance and promote the presence of women in STEM studies, supporting with concrete opportunities talented female students who have produced brilliant thesis works.
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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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