On the night of July 21st, 2022, at 21:24:41 UTC, telescopes at CastelGAUSS Observatory have captured an image of the International Space Station (ISS) passing over Europe. The ISS was at an altitude of 420.9 km, speeding at 7.665 km/s at an azimuth of 15.9° and an elevation of 18.8° when viewed from CastelGAUSS Observatory. […]
The European Space Agency is increasingly looking at possibilities to begin recycling materials in space, as we do every day here on Earth. The critical words are: recycle, refurbish, repurpose and reuse. Man has carried in space many tonnes of valuable materials (metals like aluminum and titanium alloys, composite materials etc.) that could be utilized […]
On October 29th, 2021, during the closing ceremony of the 2021 International Astronautical Congress that was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Prof. Filippo Graziani, President of GAUSS Srl, was awarded the prestigious Frank J. Malina Astronautics Award by the International Astronautical Federation. This award is presented annually to an educator who has demonstrated excellence […]
On December 2, 2020, our astronomical observatory (the CastelGAUSS Project) in Castelgrande took part in the 5th International Space Debris Re-entry Workshop, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA). We presented some results of photometric observations of artificial satellites in pre-decay period, primarily of upper stages, like, Falcon 9 R/B, Atlas V Centaur R/B and […]
On November 13th 2020 Prof. Graziani, Founder and CEO of GAUSS Srl, has made a presentation during the conference “Access to Space, Italian Innovative Technologies” organized by the Aerospace Commission of the Ordine degli Ingegneri di Roma e Provincia, in collaboration with the Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale. The presentation was about a novel interplanetary mission […]
The Asteroid Day, which is celebrated on June 30, is an annual international event declared by the United Nations Organization in December 2016 with the goal to spread awareness among general public about asteroids, their research, their usage, their hazards and the methods of Earth protection against them. The celebration date had been selected in […]
