| | CIRA NewsletterEdition June 2018News and Events from CIRA, Italian Aerospace Research Center
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| NEWS |  | 28.06.2018Small space re-entry system development Program recently launched IPERDRONE is the name of the Program led by CIRA and funded by the Italian Space Agency aimed at designing and developing a small space re-entry system, which is able to perform in-orbit operations on the ISS, re-enter the atmosphere and safely land on Earth bringing back unaltered ISS scientific payloads/experiments |
| |  | 07.06.2018The President of SAE International has visited CIRAMircea Gradu, the President of SAE International has visited CIRA.
The guest were shown the core competencies as well as the scientific and technological capabilities of the Centre, focusing mainly on the activities that CIRA, member of the "SAE Aerospace Corporate", has carried out for years within the context of the association. |
| |  | 09.05.2018CIRA technologies for the VEGA C InterstageThe Manufacturing Readiness Review, held at the beginning of May at CIRA in the presence of the Technical Officer of ESA, officially marked the beginning of the production stage, at our Centre, of the first technological model of the Interstage 2-3 of the new VEGA C European space launcher, the first flight of which has been scheduled for 2020. |
| | INFRASTRUCTURES ARTICLES |  | 21.06.2018QARMAN full-scale spacecraft successfully survived to SCIROCCO testA test in SCIROCCO Plasma Wind Tunnel facility was successfully performed on the QARMAN CubeSat, a miniaturized satellite developed to demonstrate re-entry technologies.
The test executed in the frame of the collaboration between CIRA and Von Karman Institute concerned a complete, full-scale spacecraft. |
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