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.
News
Il DAER @FOCUS TV
30/01/2025

Conferences
DAER @2025 AAS/AIAA SFMM
24/01/2025

Research
STEFANO SILVESTRINI AMONG THE WINNERS OF THE IDEA LEAGUE FELLOWSHIP EXCHANGE PROGRAM
24/01/2025

Conferences
DAER FLIES TO SciTech25
24/01/2025

Research
EDIDP-INTEGRAL PROJECT DEMO WEEK CONCLUSION
23/01/2025

Research
MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS TO CHARACTERIZE ASTEROIDS’ BUILDING BLOCKS AT THE ZARM DROP TOWER IN BREMEN
07/01/2025

Research
GEORYDER PROJECT - A NEW ERA FOR ORBITAL TRANSPORT
06/11/2024

News
See allIl DAER @FOCUS TV
30/01/2025
Il 25 gennaio 2025, è andato in onda il documentario di Focus TV, "In fuga verso il futuro - Storia di Elon Musk", condotto dal giornalista e divulgatore scientifico Luigi Bignami.
01/10
DAER FLIES TO SciTech25
24/01/2025
A large delegation from DAER attended the 2025 AIAA SciTech Conference!
02/10
STEFANO SILVESTRINI AMONG THE WINNERS OF THE IDEA LEAGUE FELLOWSHIP EXCHANGE PROGRAM
24/01/2025
Stefano Silvestrini, researcher at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology - Politecnico di Milano, is among the winners of the IDEA League Fellowship 2024-2025 grant.
03/10
DAER @2025 AAS/AIAA SFMM
24/01/2025
A great DAER participation at the 2025 AAS/AIAA SFMM held from January 19 to 23 in Kaua'i, Hawaii
04/10
EDIDP-INTEGRAL PROJECT DEMO WEEK CONCLUSION
23/01/2025
From 25-29 November, the INTEGRAL demo week was held simultaneously at the Aerospace Operations Command (COA) of the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) in Poggio Renatico, Italy, and the Torrejon Air Base in Madrid, Spain.
05/10
TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS OPEN: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR STM AND MODELLING OF REACTIVE CONSTELLATIONS
20/01/2025
Interested in contributing to the future of research in the Space field? Two Postdoc positions are currently available at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technologies of Politecnico di Milano.
06/10
MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS TO CHARACTERIZE ASTEROIDS’ BUILDING BLOCKS AT THE ZARM DROP TOWER IN BREMEN
07/01/2025
GEMS (Granular Experiment in Microgravity with asteroid Simulant) is a microgravity experimental campaign carried out in the context of TRACES (Transitions in Rubble-pile Asteroid Chaotic Environment and granular Structures), an ERC-funded project led by Prof. Fabio Ferrari at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER), Politecnico di Milano.
07/10
DAER CHRISTMAS PARTY 2024
20/12/2024
La Festa di Natale del Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali del Politecnico di Milano (DAER) si è svolta il 19 dicembre presso l'aula De Carli del Campus Candiani
08/10
DECENTRALISED DECISION MAKING FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM
17/12/2024
09/10
SPACEFLIGHT UNDER UNCERTAINTY: TOWARDS SAFE SPACECRAFT AUTONOMY AND ROBUST MISSION DESIGN
13/12/2024
PhDAER Seminar Friday, December 13, from 14:00 alle 15:30 - Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali, Politecnico di Milano, Sala Consiglio DAER, Second Floor, Campus Bovisa, Via La Masa, 34, Milano (MI)
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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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