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CastelGAUSS Observatory, Località Toppo di CastelGrande, Castelgrande, Italy
Company Profile
GAUSS Srl is an Italian limited liability company based in Rome, founded in 2012 as a spin-off of the Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale of Sapienza University of Rome, carrying on the School’s more than thirty-year tradition in the field of microsatellites. Active in the space technology field, its aims are the research, the development and the implementation of aerospace projects, plus the educational aspect and the execution of related cultural initiatives.
GAUSS has gained experience from ten differently shaped and sized satellites’ launches. The company business is mainly related to the design and the manufacturing of micro, nano, pico and femto satellites, intended as Small Sats, CubeSat, PocketQube and their deployers.
Since the early nineties, activities of designing, ground testing, integration, launch and ground operations have been managed by GAUSS members at the Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, where the UNISAT program started under the supervision of Prof. Filippo Graziani.
The latest satellite, UNISAT-7, was launched on March 22nd, 2021, by a Soyuz-Fregat LV from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
UNISAT-7 has released five smaller satellites in orbit, and it includes several GAUSS subsystems to be tested in orbit, as well as several third-party payloads that will be demonstrated in orbit: a low-thrust engine for orbital maneuvers and an RF payload for research on narrow-band Internet-of-Things technology usage from space.
UNISAT-6 was launched in 2014 and it released in orbit 4 CubeSats.
GAUSS activities include also structural design, realization and integration of the main subsystems and payloads and all the ground segment operations. The scientific and educational mission of the company is also very important: several experiments are boarded on the microsatellites, ranging from space debris observation instruments to space biomedicine payloads research.
Since 2009, GAUSS has been performing bio-medical research in space and in 2011 it was able to conduct two bio-medical experiments on board the Space Shuttle.
GAUSS has also performed launches from the “International Space Station” through the “Kibo” Japanese Module.
GAUSS has been active for years in the research on astrodynamics and space debris, with its CastelGAUSS observatory devoted to the identification, tracking and monitoring of space debris and Near-Earth Objects.
Headquarter
Via Sambuca Pistoiese, 70 Roma RM 138
