Docente: Ing. Giorgio Perrotta, Direttore Tecnico

della Società IMT, situata in Roma, Via Bartolomeo Piazza 8

per conoscere meglio il Docente si acclude qui un breve Curriculum Professionale

Name: Giorgio Perrotta
Date of Birth: 08-05-1940
Education: graduated in Electronic Engineering , Radionavigation specialization,
in 1965 with a thesis on a TACAN system
In 1985 he participated to the Management Course ( 8 weeks) organized
by IRI for the 35 % most promising young IRI’s managers;

Experience:
2000- onwards: co-owner and technical Director of IMT srl, a small hi-tech enterprise
very active in systems engineering and in the R&D of innovative
electronic products for aerospace applications. Responsible for the
definition of key innovative hardware products and system design of the
nanosatellites being developed by IMT with company’s funds;

1995-1999: with Alenia Spazio, responsible for the Strategic Studies including
satellite systems for Radio Navigation and ATC; innovative satellite
constellations for DRS and worldwide communications using new types
of elliptical orbits. Responsible for Research activities with Italian
Universities and Research Groups concerning the design and application
of stratospheric platforms, parallel calculus, signal compression
algorithms, automatic photo interpretation , and innovative
communication systems;
1987-1995: responsible for New Studies, New Business Directorate. Project manager
for Artemis phase A. Chief system designer and Project Scientist for the
COSMO satellite system. Responsible for Advanced Research in the
field of small satellites, and for Electric Propulsion within the industrial
group coordinated by Alenia Spazio;
1982-1987: with Alenia Spazio, Head of Communication and Remote Sensing Depts,
- and later as Head of the System Engineering , Electrical Subsystems and
Payload Subsystem group- with direct responsibilities for the system
design of Olympus in phases A and B, ERS-1, and Italsat.
1971- 1982: senior system engineer, with Selenia Industrie, Electrical Communication
Dept, responsible for the design of the Sirio-1 and Sirio-2 satellite
payloads and for all system studies for ESA;
1965-1971: antenna systems design engineer with Selenia Industrie, Rome;


Patents: about a dozen patents concerning several space technology aspects ( constellations, tracking systems, mechanically scanning antennas, time synchronization,…)

Publications: more than 230 technical papers covering several aspects of space systems, subsystems’ technologies and space projects. A few of recent papers, that he authored or co-authored, are listed herebelow:

- “ Early experiments with W_band Satellite links”, 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, U.S.A.;

- “ An educational-oriented cooperation between a SME and an italian high-school on microsatellite D&D methodologiies” ; 4th Symposium on Small Satellite Systems, Larochelle (Fr); Oct 2004;
- “ Launch and orbital operations of satellites individually launched or flown in constellations or formations” , Workshop sulle Applicazioni della Navigazione Satellitare , Convitto della Calza, Firenzr, Marzo 2003;

- Use of the ISM frequency bands for short and medium range wireless data transmission on board spacecraft and large space stations”; TT&C 2004, ESA _Estec ; Noordwjik;

- “Challenges in the design and realization of constellation-optimized nano and microsatellites with high performance-to-cost ratio”; AIDAA, XVII National Congress, Rome Sept. 2003;

- “Prospettive dell’impiego dei COTS nei programmi spaziali di una piccola-media impresa” ASI workshop, Nov. 2000;

- “New navigation satellite systems based on intermediate circular orbits”; Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 36 Dec. 1998;

- “Transition phase for a new navigation system based on a constellation of LEO satellites” IAF Workshop on ‘Mission design and implementation of satellite constellations’, 1998;

- “Low thrust ion propulsion for advanced applications on small satellite constellations”, 25th Int’l Electric Propulsion Conference, Cleveland 1997;

- “ATM-STAR: a multifunctional multipurpose satellite constellation in LEO integrating Communications, Navigation and Surveillance”; 4th ITS-World Congress, 1997;

- “COSMO/Skymed mission and SAR/optical payload requirements vs. applications”; ESA Workshop, Frascati 1997;

- “Constellation of small satellites in ICO for flexible and cost-effective Data Relay System”; 2nd Int’l Conference on Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing; Xi’an, P.R.China, 1997;

- “Tactical reconnaissance by a constellation of small satellites”; AGARD Conf. Proceedings 560 : ‘Space systems as contributors to the NATO defence mission’, 1996;

- “Space-based SSR constellation for global air traffic control” , IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, Vol. 32 N° 3 July 1996;

- “Small synthetic Aperture radar satellite constellation for tracking oil spills”; Spill Science and Technology Bulletin, Vol. 3 N° 12, 1996;

- “An update of the COSMO project” ; The Space Congress, Bremen, May 1995;

- “Il sistema satellitare COSMO come strumento di verifica del rispetto delle leggi a difesa dell’ambiente”, Incontro scientifico sugli aspetti giuridico-istituzionali della difesa dell’ambiente, 1995;

- “Application of the COSMO satellite system to disaster monitoring”, IGARSS, Florence, July 1995;

- “The market for high resolution, frequent revisits, remote sensing services and the opportunities offered by the COSMO system”, 1st Int’l Symposium on the Expansion of the Remote Sensing market; Paris, march 1995;

- “Small satellites contribution to remote sensing: the COSMO project”, 2nnd Euro-Latin Space Days, Buenos-Aires, 1994;

- “Electric propulsion for lightsats: review of applications and advantages”; AGARD Conference Proceedings 522 ;1993 ;

- “SAR sensors on Tacsats: a feasibility assessment”; AGARD Conference Proceedings, ‘Tacsats for Surveillance, Verification and C3I’ ; Brussels, 1993;

- “SAR sensors on board small satellites: problems and perspectives”, CICR ’91, Peking;

- “Orbital control and manoeuvring of lightsats: assessment of new ion propulsion technologies based on the Electron Cyclotron Resonance phenomenon, to improve the performance of thrusters in the millinewton range”; 22nd Int’l Electric propulsion Conference; Viareggio 1991;

Books: Author of two chapters (‘Piattaforme osservative aeree e spaziali’ and ‘ Disponibilità dei Dati rilevati’ ) of a two-volumes scientific monografic publication by the Italian National Research Council, titled ‘ Tecniche e Strumenti per il Telerilevamento ambientale’ , published in 2001-2002;

Awards:
- Prize C. Colombo for Electronic Innovation, 1985 (pioneering studies on FDMA-TDMA techniques for communication satellites);
- Honorary Professor nomination (1991) at the Technical University of Cheng-Du (P.R. China) for Technical Achievements in Space Technologies;

Academic Activities:

2003 and 2004:
Lecturer for the post-graduation Master in ‘Platforms and satellite systems’ at the University of Rome La Sapienza on the following topics:
- Satellite Communications: principles and implementation;
- Economics of satellite systems
- Advanced Engineering Tools available to the system designer and specialists
- Theory and practice, through team building and exercises, of the design of a geostationary commercial communication satellite (2003) and of a LEO remote sensing satellite system equipped with an optical and SAR sensor (2004);
For these Master courses he was also active in the overall organization of the topics and the lectures’ content and in the evaluation of the participants’ learning process ;

2004-2005 and 2006
Lecturer for the post-graduation Master in ‘ Advanced Communication and Navigation satellite systems’ at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ in the following topics:
- Specificities of satellites against other technological Means;
- Economics of satellite systems: extended lectures complemented by group-exercises simulating the evaluation, by an industrial team, of an international bid opportunity;
- Nano, Micro, and minisatellites

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e_mail: gperrotta@alice.it