| CIRA contribution to the ESA Hera planetary defence mission | | https://www.cira.it/en/research-infrastructures/space-qualification-laboratory/il-contributo-cira-al-programma-hera-per-la-difesa-planetaria/CIRA contribution to the ESA Hera planetary defence mission | CIRA contribution to the ESA Hera planetary defence mission | After DART comes Hera, to be launched on late 2024 towards the binary asteroid system for post-impact assessment. Hera will onboard two nano satellites, one of which is Italian and named “Milani". CIRA is part of the Milani consortium and is collaborating through the “Laboratorio di Qualifica Spaziale" | | |
| Propulsione spaziale, conclusa con successo la campagna di test a fuoco del dimostratore DEMO0A di Hyprob | | https://www.cira.it/en/competences/propulsion/propulsione-spaziale-conclusa-con-successo-la-campagna-di-test-a-fuoco-del-dimostratore-demo0a-di-hyprob/Propulsione spaziale, conclusa con successo la campagna di test a fuoco del dimostratore DEMO0A di Hyprob | Propulsione spaziale, conclusa con successo la campagna di test a fuoco del dimostratore DEMO0A di Hyprob | The test campaign of the DEMO0A, within the HYPROB project - Demonstrators line, has been successfully completed at the FAST2 - AVIO (Colleferro) test facility.
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| ANGELA Project, vibrational qualification campaign of the RACER Compound Helicopter landing gears completed | | https://www.cira.it/en/competences/strutture-e-materiali/progetto-angela-superati-i-test-di-qualifica-vibrazionale-per-i-carrelli-d’atterraggio-del-racer-compound-helicopter/ANGELA Project, vibrational qualification campaign of the RACER Compound Helicopter landing gears completed | ANGELA Project, vibrational qualification campaign of the RACER Compound Helicopter landing gears completed | The vibration qualification activities of the landing gear system of the RACER Compound Helicopter, one of the two demonstrators of the Clean Sky 2 platform called Fast Rotorcraft, were successfully completed at CIRA. | | |
| Mini Irene capsule recovered and mission completed | | https://www.cira.it/en/space/accesso-allo-spazio-satelliti-ed-esplorazione/mini-irene/capsula-mini-irene-recuperata-e-missione-compiuta/Mini Irene capsule recovered and mission completed | Mini Irene capsule recovered and mission completed | The "Mini Irene Flight Experiment" (MIFE) is successfully completed. The capsule, launched on November 23 from the Swedish Space Center (SSC) with a Sounding Rocket Maser, has been recovered at the end of the suborbital mission | | |
| Clean Aviation’s Scaled Flight Demonstrator completes its Mission Flight Tests | | https://www.cira.it/en/competences/aeronautics-integrations-flight-demos/clean-aviation-concluse-presso-l’aeroporto-di-grottaglie-le-prove-in-volo-del-dimostratore-in-scala/Clean Aviation’s Scaled Flight Demonstrator completes its Mission Flight Tests | Clean Aviation’s Scaled Flight Demonstrator completes its Mission Flight Tests | Between 17 October and 31 October 2022, the Scaled Flight Demonstrator (SFD) developed in the frame of Clean Aviation made 19 flights for a total of 8 flight hours, taking off from and landing at Aeroporto di Taranto-Grottaglie in Italy | | |
