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
CALL: MSCA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP MASTERCLASS
20/05/2025

Events
A NEW EYE ON EARTH: INSIDE THE IRIDE PROGRAMME
06/05/2025

Events
INCONTRO IN RICORDO DI PAOLO MANTEGAZZA
29/04/2025

Education
PASSION IN ACTION COURSE ON THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF A ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT
17/04/2025

News
AEROSPACE CAREER EXPERIENCE - 2025 EDITION
16/04/2025

Research
COMPASS AND SPIRE LABS AT THE 9TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPACE DEBRIS
14/04/2025

Research
AETHER: A FLYING PLATFORM TO STUDY REDUNDANT LONGITUDINAL CONTROL IN THREE-SURFACE CONFIGURATION.
09/04/2025

News
See allCALL: MSCA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP MASTERCLASS
20/05/2025
The 8th edition of the Politecnico di Milano MSCA-MASTERCLASS is now open! Promising candidates to the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship call 2025 will be supported throughout the application process. The aim of the Masterclass is to train young and talented researchers to successfully apply to the MSCA call appointing Politecnico di Milano as Host institution.
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A NEW EYE ON EARTH: INSIDE THE IRIDE PROGRAMME
06/05/2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM – Politecnico di Milano – Carassa Dadda Lecture Hall – Bovisa Campus – Via Raffaele Lambruschini 4, 20156 Milan
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INCONTRO IN RICORDO DI PAOLO MANTEGAZZA
29/04/2025
Martedì, 29 aprile 2025, ore 14:30 - Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali, Edificio B12, Sala Consiglio - Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via La Masa 34, Milano
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PASSION IN ACTION COURSE ON THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF A ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT
17/04/2025
Striking success of the new Passion in Action course entitled “Industrial Development of a Helicopter: A Market and Business Perspective”.
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AEROSPACE CAREER EXPERIENCE - 2025 EDITION
16/04/2025
On April 16, 2025, the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of Politecnico di Milano hosted the 2025 edition of the Aerospace Career Experience, with the support of the university’s Career Service.
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INNOVATING AIR MOBILITY: HYDROGEN-POWERED SYSTEMS AND URBAN DRONE DYNAMICS
15/04/2025
This seminar will explore the European Commission's Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy for the aviation sector.
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COMPASS AND SPIRE LABS AT THE 9TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPACE DEBRIS
14/04/2025
Recently, members of the COMPASS and SPIRE Labs from our department at Politecnico di Milano took part in the 9th European Conference on Space Debris, held in Bonn from April 1st to 4th, 2025.
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AETHER: A FLYING PLATFORM TO STUDY REDUNDANT LONGITUDINAL CONTROL IN THREE-SURFACE CONFIGURATION.
09/04/2025
Aether (Airplane in Three-Surface Configuration with Redundant Longitudinal Control) is a flying platform developed to study performance and control characteristics of a particular configuration, based on three lifting surfaces where both canard and tail are equipped with movable parts, offering redundant longitudinal control.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL AEROSPACE CONGRESS
08/04/2025
Chiara Bisagni has been invited as a keynote speaker at the Australian International Aerospace Congress in Melbourne
09/10
A DEVICE WITH UNPRECEDENTED RESOLUTION TO ‘PHOTOGRAPH’ ANTIMATTER
07/04/2025
The AEḡIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity Interferometry and Spectroscopy) experiment, currently underway at CERN in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano (research group of Giovanni Consolati, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology), has achieved an important result published on April 2, 2025, in the journal Science Advances
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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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