Space Strategy and Business Development Lead for Europe at Lockheed Martin

Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Forward Defense practice of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security (https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/marco-tantardini/).

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) holds the PDC every two years: its 4th conference at ESA ESRIN, in Italy, in 2015, the 5th at JAXA, in Japan, in 2017, the 6th in Washington DC, in 2019, and the 7th was virtual and organized by UNOOSA, in 2021. More info: https://iaaspace.org/event/7th-iaa-planetary-defense-conference-2021/

DronSystems has developed DroNav, a software and hardware system to enable safe highly automated commercial operations for small civil drones operating at very low altitudes.

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Expert in the Technical team for the coordination of economic policy (NTPE) in the Prime Minister's Office, working in the Space and Aerospace Policy Office.

ASI Technical Contact Point with NASA HQ for the ASI participation in the NASA's Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-italian-space-agency-explore-partnership-opportunities-on-asteroid-redirect-mission/)

Coordinating the working group (WG) for the Office of the Military Adviser to the Prime Minister regarding infrastructures and products to enable automation in aerial, maritime and terrestrial transports.

Cleantech company

I proposed a project that in November 2010 has become a study at Caltech - NASA JPL (Asteroid Return Mission Study http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/asteroid2011/index.html). As a consequence, in April 2013 NASA announced the Asteroid Redirect Mission as the new strategy for human space exploration (www.nasa.gov/asteroidinitiative).#1 "NASA's plan to lasso asteroid originated with Italian student":… Show more I proposed a project that in November 2010 has become a study at Caltech - NASA JPL (Asteroid Return Mission Study http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/asteroid2011/index.html). As a consequence, in April 2013 NASA announced the Asteroid Redirect Mission as the new strategy for human space exploration (www.nasa.gov/asteroidinitiative).#1 "NASA's plan to lasso asteroid originated with Italian student": http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-04-09/news/os-asteroid-congress-nasa--so-how-did-an-proposal-20130409_1_asteroid-nasa-concept<< It wasn't born at NASA headquarters but instead is credited to a 20-something scientist from Italy who dreamed up the idea while working stateside for influential U.S. space activists, including Lou Friedman of The Planetary Society."I was introduced to the idea by a young intern," Friedman said. "First of all, I thought it was crazy."But the intern, Marco Tantardini, was persistent and ultimately got Friedman's backing — so much so that the two men later anchored a 2012 study that became the foundation of the new policy, which the White House officially will unveil Wednesday. >>#2 This is an interview I gave to RIA Novosti (Russia): http://ria.ru/space/20131007/968254564.html#3 I was featured on the May 2014 issue of Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-were-finding-asteroids-they-find-us<< On many days, Sisyphus Victorious felt similarly unattainable to Tantardini. Friends suggested that he just write up a paper, present it at a conference, and move on. But he wasn’t willing to give up on his idea. “I wanted to make something real happen,” he says. Tantardini knew he didn’t have the expertise to develop the mission on his own, so in the summer of 2010 he decided to recruit other engineers to help him. He reached out to acquaintances from his former internships, and he Google-stalked NASA’s top administrators, emailing them his pitch. >> Show less

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I received a consultancy contract from ESA for my participation to the Asteroid Return Mission study at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) and reported to the ESA HQ in Paris

Master Thesis: "Transfer strategies to the L3 libration point of the Sun-Earth system". Research presented at CelMec V in September 2009.A paper titled "Spacecraft trajectories to the L3 point of the Sun–Earth three-body problem" has been published on the renowned journal Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Springer): http://www.springerlink.com/content/64n5k064g2096785/Applied Mathematics, Astrodynamics, Low Thurst, CR3BP, Invariant Manifolds, Optimization, Space… Show more Master Thesis: "Transfer strategies to the L3 libration point of the Sun-Earth system". Research presented at CelMec V in September 2009.A paper titled "Spacecraft trajectories to the L3 point of the Sun–Earth three-body problem" has been published on the renowned journal Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Springer): http://www.springerlink.com/content/64n5k064g2096785/Applied Mathematics, Astrodynamics, Low Thurst, CR3BP, Invariant Manifolds, Optimization, Space Weather. Show less

Analysis of the benefits of a mission to a Near Earth Object (Apophis) compared to radar and optical observations

Analysis of papers about:- Manned Missions to Near Earth Objects- how to deviate an Earth approaching asteroid: from the tugboat to the gravity tractorAnalysis and review of Earth Remote Sensing websitesStudy and parametric analysis of the end of life of the solar sail Cosmos 2 (published in a report)Marketing and network expansion for the weekly radio program Planetary Radio (www.planetary.org/radio)