LEAD YOUR SMALLSAT ANYWHERE IN THE

SOLAR SYSTEM

UNFOLDING

THE DEEP SPACE

POTENTIAL

About Us

A deep-space company

PURPOSE


Unfolding the deep space potential

VISION


Becoming the leading provider of

deep space services and infrastructures

to enable world's transition from terrestrial

to interplanetary markets.


MISSION


Nowadays, interplanetary (or deep space) missions are mainly operated by public space agencies. However, as occurred in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), we believe the time has come for deep-space missions to be fully managed and performed by private enterprises.

In this context, the Nautilus' Mission is to pioneer the privatization of critical Operational Ground Segment services and infrastructures to ensure an extensive, recurring and cost-effective access to deep space.

We strongly believe that deep-space exploration will radically shape our future: among the stars the current technology, knowledge and consciusness will evolve and a brand-new era of human history will unfold. We are here to make that happen.

Deep-Space Services

Customized and cost-effective solutions

Flight-Dynamics

We guide and navigate your satellite throughout all operational phases of a Deep Space mission, from separation to end-of life

Navigation Services

We provide additional support and consultancy both in the mission design (Phase 0 to Phase C) and during routine and/or critical routine flying missions.

Deep-space SmallSats Operations

We offer support in the definition of the ground segment infrastructure and procedures, providing navigation requirements for SmallSats.

Consulting

With our proven expertise in the fields of astrodynamics, radioscience, navigation, and satellite systems we can also provide consultancy on-request.

Benefits

Why choosing us?

The Solar System Has Never Been So Small

We will help you charting the route to anywhere in the solar system. Our navigation services are customized to reflect needs and requirements of any small satellites missions.

Reach Deep Space On a Budget

Our navigation services are designed to be economically compatible with small satellites missions and to fit every possible mission scenario.

Relax And Enjoy The Exploration

We take care of your spacecraft journey, from the design of the mission to the end of the operational life. A superior and reliable offer to enjoy your ride.

Markets

Multiple applications, endless gains

Space Exploration

The SmallSats revolution has enabled such class of spacecraft to self-sustain interplanetary scientific missions. Our solution will drastically increase the access to deep space, allowing hundreds of SmallSats to explore the solar system and reveal its secrets.

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Space Exploration

The SmallSats revolution has enabled this class of spacecraft to self-sustain interplanetary scientific missions. Our solution will drastically increase access to deep space, allowing hundreds of SmallSats to explore our solar system and reveal its secrets.

Asteroid Mining

Asteroids contain a wide range of finite-Earth resources like water or platinum. Our cost-efficient solution can pave the way to enormous environmental and economic gains as well as provide critical resources to permanent human colonies in space.

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Asteroid Mining

Asteroids contain a wide range of finite-Earth resources from water to platinum. Our cost-efficient solution can pave the way to enormous environmental and economic gains as well as provide critical resources to permanent human colonies in space.

Planetary Defence

While the chances of a major near-Earth object collision are low in the near term, it is likely that in the far future humanity must face such a threat. Our solution will expedite SmallSats employment to study hazardous asteroids and eventually redirect their orbit.

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Planetary Defence

While the chances of a major near-Earth object collision are low in the near term, it is likely that in the far future humanity must face such a threat. Our solution will expedite SmallSats employment to study hazardous asteroids and eventually redirect their orbit.

The Team

Skilled professionals, bold humans

Alfredo Locarini

CEO and Founder

Alessandro Morselli

Guidance & Control lead

and Founder

Luis A. Gomez Casajus

Orbit Determination lead and Founder

Marco Maggi

Strategic and Financial Analyst

Francesco Topputo

Business Developer

and Founder

Paolo Tortora

Business Developer

and Founder

Dario Modenini

Attitude Control expert

and Founder

Marco Zannoni

Flight Dynamics expert

and Founder

Heritage

Review our 20-year experience in deep-space

ORBIT DETERMINATION

The Nautilus technical offer is firmly based on the expertise acquired over the course of two decades of research activity within the Radio Science and Planetary Exploration laboratory and the Microsatellites and Space Microsystems laboratory of the University of Bologna.

The two teams have achieved remarkable research achievements thanks to their involvement in several international projects in the area of orbit determination, planetary science and in the area of micro and nano-satellite systems design: development, testing and satellite communication.

The University of Bologna has conducted research activities performing the data analysis of several past NASA and ESA deep space missions: Pioneer, Galileo and Cassini. At the moment, the team is involved in several ongoing and future missions of both NASA and ESA such as Juno, Bepi-Colombo, Exomars 2022, HERA, Juice and Europa Clipper. Moreover, the research team is currently in charge of the navigation of the first two European interplanetary CubeSats funded and coordinated by ASI: LICIACube and ArgoMoon.

Credit: ESA/Science Office

GUIDANCE AND CONTROL

The second cornerstone of Nautilus is the Deep-space Astrodynamics Research & Technology (DART) group of the Politecnico di Milano, that is performing ground-breaking research on trajectory design and optimization, autonomous guidance, navigation and control (GNC) for deep-space CubeSats and satellites.


In 2019, prof. Francesco Topputo was awarded an ERC consolidator grant for the EXTREMA project, whose goal is to enable CubeSats with autonomous GNC capabilities. The outcomes of the research on autonomous navigation, autonomous guidance and control, and autonomous ballistic capture will eventually be integrated in a fully-functional facility to test interplanetary missions.


Moreover, the DART group is strongly involved in the design and operations of the ESA interplanetary CubeSats fleet: Milani, to be released in the proximity of a binary asteroid Didymos and Dimorphos as part of Hera mission, LUMIO, whose goal is to observe, quantify, and characterize the meteoroid impacts by detecting their flashes on the lunar farside, and M-ARGO, the first standalone CubeSat that will use its own low-thrust propulsion system to journey in deep-space and rendez-vous with an asteroid.


Credit: ESA-Jacky Huart

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Pursuant to Article 13 of the EU Regulation 2016/679, we inform you that your Personal Data, provided by you to our Company, will be processed by NAUTILUS - NAVIGATION IN SPACE SRL as Data Controller, for the sole purpose of providing you with the information and assistance you requested. We also inform you that this data will be kept only for the time necessary to ensure a correct and complete reply (unless otherwise required by law). The legal basis for the aforementioned processing is to carry out activities of pre-contractual/contractual nature requested by the data subject. The provision of your Personal Data is not compulsory, however failure to provide data marked with * will prevent us from respond to your request. In case you provide to us your Personal Data, we inform you that your Personal Data will be processed only by authorised personnel pursuant to Article 29 of the GDPR. Your Data will not be disseminated but can be communicated to third parties authorized to the processing of such data, being in charge of carrying out or supplying specific services, strictly functional to the execution of your requests. Regarding the processing of the aforementioned data, pursuant to Article 15 et seq. of the EU Regulation 2016/679, we remind you the right to obtain the access of Personal Data concerning you; the right to obtain the rectification (correction of inaccurate data or integration), the right to erasure the Personal Data processed unlawfully or in case one of the reasons specified in Article 17 of the EU Regulation exists. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in case you consider that the rights indicated above have not been recognized. To exercise the right set forth above, please contact the Data Controller, writing to NAUTILUS - NAVIGATION IN SPACE SRL, with headquarters in Viale Giuseppe Fanin, 48, 40127 Bologna (BO), Italy, email: privacy@spacenautilus.com


 

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Data Controller: The data controller is NAUTILUS - NAVIGATION IN SPACE SRL, with headquarters in Viale Giuseppe Fanin, 48, 40127 Bologna (BO), Italy, email: privacy@spacenautilus.com

 

Purposes and processing methods: The collection and processing of your data has as its purpose the management of the selection and recruitment of personnel. The Data will be processed by authorized personnel in accordance with Article 29 of EU Regulation 2016/679. The Data may also be collected from third parties, in which case it will be our responsibility to promptly inform you, as required by Article 14 of the GDPR. Some Data will be processed on behalf of the Company by third companies, bodies or professionals who, as outsourced treatment managers, perform specific processing services or

activities complementary to ours. The legal basis for the aforementioned processing is to carry out activities of pre-contractual/contractual nature requested by the candidate.


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The resumes received will be deleted at the end of the calendar year following the one of receipt; if you are still interested in proposing your application you will have to re-send.

 

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b.     Categories of personal data in hand;

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international organizations;

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