Francesco Capolupo Email & Phone Number

Noordwijk-Binnen, South Holland, Netherlands

Argonaut, ExoMars, LEO Cargo Return Service, MSR-ERO

Noordwijk-Binnen, South Holland, Netherlands

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

> Responsible for the design of the Relative Vision-Based Navigation and Autonomous Guidance modules for the rendezvous phase of the Mars Sample Return - Earth Return Orbiter mission.> Provided Technical Expert support to all GNC activities related to rendezvous and proximity operations of MSR-ERO.

Toulouse Area, France

> Lead GNC designer for ESA Mars Sample Return - Earth Return Orbiter phase A/B1 study and phase B2/C/D proposal, providing expert technical support on relative vision-based navigation, rendezvous guidance, and trajectory design to subsystems architects.> GNC Specialist within the Advanced Studies department, participating in all key activities as junior technical expert, contributing to roadmaps, and leading complex technical tasks for feasibility studies, proposals, and pre-developments.> Selected to be part of Airbus Experts Pool, regrouping candidates to senior technical experts roles. > Rendezvous GNC Architect for the Phase 0/A of Moon Cruiser, a commercial servicing vehicle for the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.> Coordinated transnational (FR, GER, UK) R&T activities on GNC, Flight Dynamics and Robotics for on-orbit servicing, planetary exploration and landers. Prepared statements of work. Organized & participated in TRL reviews.> Designed and developed a Linear Covariance Analysis tool for GNC performance analysis, budgeting, trade-offs, and requirements gathering. > Transfer of knowledge across the company, by providing GNC training course to Airbus employees.> Supervised several PhD theses and Internships in cooperation with ESA, CNES, ISAE and IMCCE.

Toulouse Area, France

> Defined and prototypes (Phase 0 to B1) GNC algorithms, and designed trajectories for the rendezvous and docking of a full electric servicing spacecraft (SpaceTug), encompassing vision-based relative navigation, model predictive guidance, robust control, and mathematical modeling of complex multi-spacecraft dynamics.> Managed and conducted several CNES R&T studies, and coordinated involved research laboratories on: a) Autonomous model predictive control & navigation design for angles-only electric propulsion rendezvous b) Autonomous heuristic trajectory planning around NEOs, asteroids and moons exploiting Libration Point Orbits (R3BP dynamics) c) Model-Based FDIR system for a spacecraft equipped with thrusting mechanical arms (patented).> Coordinated and contributed to ITT proposals on advanced GNC R&D and R&T topics.> Involved in several R&D and feasibility studies (Phase 0/A) for the European Space Agency and the European Union, among which: eDeorbit Phase A (active debris removal), Neoshield (asteroid kinetic impactor), AGADiR (active debris removal).

Toulouse Area, France

> Developed flight dynamics software in Java for low thrust transfer analysis and optimization.

Toulouse Area, France

External Lecturer for the Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) Design module of the Space Systems Engineering course.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Designed and tested (hardware in the loop) the optical path length control system for a separated spacecraft interferometry mission at the Space Systems Laboratory.

Milan Area, Italy

Definition and design of the Attitude Determination and Control System of the European Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO).

Toulouse Area, France

Control Moment Gyros performance determination, and development of post-processing routines of CMGs acceptance tests

Master Of Science (Diplôme D'Ingénieur), Space Systems Engineering

T.I.M.E. Double Master's Degree Specialized in: - Control Systems Engineering - Mathematical Methods and Models

Master Of Science, Space Engineering

T.I.M.E. Double Master's Degree

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering