Sergio Palumberi Email & Phone Number

Munich, BY, DE

Monaco Di Baviera, Baviera, Germania

Member of the ESA ISS Increment Managers Team (aka Mission Managers), with overall responsibility for managing and coordinating the end-to-end preparation and execution of all Columbus and ESA activities for specific ISS increments or commercial missions assigned.- ESA Mission Manager for Increment 67 and Samantha Cristoforetti MINERVA mission - ESA Mission.

Ottobrunn (Munich) - Germany

• Lead of the European Data Relay System - Mission Operations Centre (MOC) operations team, responsible for effective operations and successful service delivery of the EDRS SpaceDataHighway.Main duties and.
• Lead of the EDRS operations team at Airbus and management of operations subcontractors, overall responsible of the execution of EDRS operations.
• Main technical interface to the customers (ESA ESRIN – Copernicus, ESA HRE – Columbus, Avanti Communications Ltd. – HYLAS 3) for the achievement and reporting of the Service Level Agreements (SLA) Key Performance.
• Estimation of OPEX budget and definition of Service Level Agreements for Service Contracts.
• Coordination and decision authority for both Space Segment and Ground Segment operations among EDRS MOC, the Spacecraft and Payload Control Centres in DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, the Antenna Management Centre in DLR Weilheim.
• 24/7 First level of escalation for EDRS Operations issues, chairman of the Anomaly Response Board

Oberpfaffenhofen (Munich), Germany

• Member of the Columbus Flight Director Office, responsible for the conduct of safe and effective operations of the ESA Columbus module and the associated ground segment, operating at DLR German Space Operations Centre.
• Lead the Columbus Flight Control Team (FCT) at the Columbus Control Centre (COL-CC), the Payload Operators at several remote European User Support Operations Centers (USOCs) and the Engineering Support Team at the.
• Single point of authority and decision making towards ISS International Partners (NASA, RSA, JAXA) with respect to the planning and execution of Columbus operations
• Responsible for ESA for astronauts and vehicle safety, with utmost authority to execute time critical actions in Columbus when required to ensure the safety of the crew and station
• Responsible for the approval of all real time related operational productsAchievements and other responsibilities:
• Columbus Operations Lead for ISS Expeditions 44 & 45 (August – December 2015): Lead Flight Director for the Columbus module, reporting directly to ESA Mission Director as responsible for end to end preparation and.

Munich Area, Germany

• One of eight Columbus On-Site Engineering Support Team leads (COLEST), unique team member with resident assignment at COL-CC in Oberpfaffenhofen.
• Directed the Anomaly Resolution Process, Chairman of Columbus and NASA/ESA Multilateral Anomaly Resolution Teams (CART/MART)
• Managed the interfaces among Flight Control Team, Engineering Support and Safety EngineeringSystem and Operations Engineer for the Thermal Control and Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (TCS/ECLSS) of ESA.
• Supported ARTs, Material Review Boards (MRB) and Engineering Change Boards (ECB)
• Participated as prime contractor to negotiations with the customer (ESA), subcontractors (Thales Alenia Space, Astrium Friedrichshafen, DLR) and other stakeholders (NASA, JAXA)
• Performed system integration for Columbus enhancement projects, with participation to e.g. Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), etc.

Turin Area, Italy

• ECLSS Operations Engineer in the Off-Site Engineering Support Team for the ESA module Columbus, for the preparation and execution of on-orbit activities and reaction to anomalies.
• System Engineering and Project Management for ASI Bio-regenerative Life Support Program (CAB): Requirements Analysis, System Architecture and phase C/D Design and Development Plan.
• ECLS Systems Engineering: design and trade-off analyses in various studies for space exploration mission architectures (e.g. ESA Pressurized Lunar Rover, ESA Architecture for Exploration).

Systems Engineer in a Phase A/B study for a "Human Lunar Initial Settlement for Space Exploration - ULISSE". Specialist for ECLSS, Reaction Control, Propulsion, Structures and Robotic Systems.

Teaching of experimental physics to Bachelor students and assistance to their laboratory activities

Ii Level Master, Space Exploration And Development Systems (Seeds)

Activities and Societies: Space Systems Engineering, Mission Analysis, Reaction Control, Space Structures, Space Robotics, Environmental.

Dipl. -Ing, Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme, IRS, Electric PropulsionVisiting researcher for the Master Thesis, concerning the.

M.S., Aerospace Engineering

Winner of a lodge in the Excellence College "R. Einaudi" for the whole duration of the University Courses