[Music]
have you ever turned your gaze
skyward to the stars in the dark
deep or towards the sun the clouds
wondering what lies beyond
of our planet like this one
I have always fascinated me since
child and have pushed me although my
study path has not always been
science-since I have a
Linguistic diploma and a degree in
clarinet have precisely thrust towards me
aerospace engineering
I have fallen in love so
then chosen as a course of study that
love for space arrived in
especially at the end of the school
higher at that time of life
a person in which you have to choose which
What do your future together
it recovers awareness
I want to dedicate my life to something
of fascinating particularly able
to test myself to bring out
my skills
already at the end of the first degree
I was able to become part of
a project that gave a twist
important my life or star
along with four other students
Padova University are in fact
managed to devise a mechanism for the
unwinding and rewinding of a
wire in space and this mechanism
we see many applications
But with a perhaps the most
fascinating is the more urgent it is
the problem of space debris
the space research led
years to the consequences that are
often you have been ignored but for
which our generation is likely
having to pay a decidedly Price
not everyone knows that high above our
orbit heads a high amount
of objects we speak of tanks
propellant empty satellites no longer
functioning and minor components for
translate all with a common image
and if current passed in a few years to
having an uninhabited and iliac
natural landscape to a real
metropolis of introducing debris
some numbers
we speak of about 18,000
of significant size of about 750
thousand medium-sized objects and about
colleagues a coin and the millions of
Objects of less than one centimeter
the real problem is that only 67
percent of them working
then about 1100 satellites on
remaining 94 percent is constituted by
material over the years has
been accumulated in space and that now
vague to meet the side so you can well
understand how risky impact
against one of them and this is
a very important issue for
Current emissions but also for those
future
Now imagine you are holding a
peanut, and that is more or less the
an average size of debris and
can launch against another object
at a speed of 35,000 40,000
kilometers per hour a thing of all
days short, the effect against this
not other object might be compared
that of a road accident or a
a bullet shot, but that of a
grenade
so I leave to your imagination
it could lead the impact
against a debris the size of a
trucks so with this well
clear in head
you can understand the gravity of the
problem of space debris that thing
do therefore faced with a problem of
Global involvement of this type
for several years the agency nasa
European Space Agency and the community
International have adopted
rules and procedures in order
limit the problem of debris
But these are not enough not
They are sufficient without the removal
active debris and then talk
human intervention
the real problem is how to do this
active removal fact each mechanism
It must have the characteristics
details must be technologically
constructible economically attractive and
most important thing is to be a good
compromised by politically
to overcome these internationally
three tests
these characteristics must must not
then constitute a risk for the
population on the ground so well understood
how difficult it is to deal
this problem
despite this have been proposed
different solutions in the minds and it
we speak for example of rieti or sails
but also a bit more exotic solutions
in this context that the
project to which I belong so star
which it was created by five students
University of Padova, and you can
see behind me, and now I
present from you to
the left found leonardo pilgrim
then there are mattia piebald and downtown
our team leader gilberto fat
then red and then I like alvise
mentioned star is a mechanism for the
unwinding and winding of a wire
this mechanism then goes into space
inserted inside a satellite
greatest mother called the state
that thanks to this wire can give
going to hook this detritus
object and then back to the ground
or launch it say towards
infinity and dold our experience
began in 2015 when the
professor of systems installations
aerospace Padova it seem
francesconi suggested we try
one of those calls every year
The European Space Agency offers
available to students
university to approach them yellow
the first years on research into
space so you can imagine
Our enthusiasm in the face of this
proposal and so it was also born
then want to get involved and
contribute to space research and after
about a year of study and even some
failure in 2016
we had the extraordinary news
to have been selected because of
one of these calls by filing draw more
Artesis that allows you to test the
own experiment in the tower
fall bremen you see my
shoulders and that is one of structure
structures that are both earth to
simulate the condition of the absence of
Space weight
as you see this is a huge tower
which is emptied of the air inside
of which a capsule is launched
containing the experiment with two
mode you are a first mode,
drop mode with which is left
dropping the capsule from the other and with which
They are experienced about 4.7 seconds
weightlessness or mode
catapult is that laid
that which has benefited star and
instead it gives access to 9.3 seconds
weightlessness not to go to our
experience
us at the time of selection
of course after an initial period of
total euphoria
we realized that he had very little
time to bring that in the moment
the selection was a brilliant idea but
as completely abstract to something
then concrete as required by
program, in fact we had about seven
months from March to October to pass
from the idea phase to the phase of tests and then
our limited experience in the field
But the search was not
help
In fact we were proposing something
It is of extremely innovative new and
so there were no books on which
study or of past missions which
lean on one hundred percent
But thanks to the initial input of our
professor of his PhD students
engineer richard mantellato Us
managed to develop the first ideas to
get quickly to a concept
final for the design we
inspired by a mechanism
sconosciutissimo the fishing rod and
we then adapted to the space thing
maybe a first impression can
seem a little trivial, but in reality
what our team has found
face was a real
challenge against years of
study and in fact in the past all
missions that have used children
They had huge mechanisms and much
heavy in which thick wire is
jammed shears must therefore bringing
then the failure of the mission
Our skill instead was just
to adopt a mechanism
simple and light to no space
We never stopped believing to be able to
create despite everything thing we
It helped in the seven months since
however, the difficulties we
faced were very
numerous for example speak of
then solutions that have proved to be not
winning
or orders that have to be repaired or
lack of cooperation with companies
third parties and funds actually in
At first they were almost non-existent
and that there are sometimes even
prevented from buying the components
necessary in some way, however we
able to adapt to situations
then finding the solutions
less expensive alternatives and in a first
now almost at autofinanziandoci
end of September, however, our
experiment was constructed in some
and so in the end we did it with
very many cafes in the body and
even a few sleepless night a bit, however,
at the end of September our
experiment was concrete was there before
to us and so we then flew to bremen
for two weeks maybe
They are among the most weeks
memorable of our lives
during the first week we had
way to deal with the technical and
Experts from the drop tower there
They gave lots of tips and was
an axis a week really
educational and during which we
the latest improvements made to our
We then entered the experiment
within the capsule to see that
After the first week then
Our experiment was ready for what
that it would be the true heart of the
our project
then the trio launches a week
Double 51 a day this week
typical day involved the wake up early
a general controlled
experiment and then maybe
replacement of some component then
there was the inclusion within the
tower and the launch after launch
and was then re-inserted the air
inside the tower was
recovered the capsule and in the evening there was
then the analysis of the behavior and
Any changes to the launch
following
now imagine to condense seven months
Work of dreams labors at times
even a little hopes of despair
in 9 seconds and you can get close in
what you can get close to that
that was our early feeling
This second week and that
But now I was going red button
pressed and then kick off the
launch sequence that would reveal
if those seven months later would lead
in the fruit
Here we were inside the tower
control
[Music]
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[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
as you can see in this video
[Music]
old as you have seen in
this video
we are proud to say that our
experiment has been successful in all
five launches and is a result that
surpassed even the most optimistic of
expectations and left space
several projects for our future
and in fact we have recently filed
the patent of our mechanism is
space for new studies and insights
There will then be of publications and
Also we are collecting funds for
participate in national conferences
International and for which we have
already selected at the conclusion of all
I want to emphasize how much each of
We’ve spent energies and dreams for
this project sacrificing lots
hours of work and study and
What fun that not all 23
years nowadays are willing to
do you started from an idea
completely abstract on paper
no funds without really knowing
in detail the object of what
we were creating, and without knowing us and
even very well between us
then get to be a united team
with a common dream and then we are proud
it has demonstrated that with the commitment the
determination and passion
the results sooner or later we will not tipino
we know if our mechanism will
never considered by some agency
Space will fly or if the important thing
But it is that everyone has tried and
is still trying to write a
little piece of history and who knows
perhaps in a not too distant future
we can say we have contributed to
back space and a free place
pristine as we all do us know
imagine
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
have you ever turned your gaze
skyward to the stars in the dark
deep or towards the sun the clouds
wondering what lies beyond
of our planet like this one
I have always fascinated me since
child and have pushed me although my
study path has not always been
science-since I have a
Linguistic diploma and a degree in
clarinet have precisely thrust towards me
aerospace engineering
I have fallen in love so
then chosen as a course of study that
love for space arrived in
especially at the end of the school
higher at that time of life
a person in which you have to choose which
What do your future together
it recovers awareness
I want to dedicate my life to something
of fascinating particularly able
to test myself to bring out
my skills
already at the end of the first degree
I was able to become part of
a project that gave a twist
important my life or star
along with four other students
Padova University are in fact
managed to devise a mechanism for the
unwinding and rewinding of a
wire in space and this mechanism
we see many applications
But with a perhaps the most
fascinating is the more urgent it is
the problem of space debris
the space research led
years to the consequences that are
often you have been ignored but for
which our generation is likely
having to pay a decidedly Price
not everyone knows that high above our
orbit heads a high amount
of objects we speak of tanks
propellant empty satellites no longer
functioning and minor components for
translate all with a common image
and if current passed in a few years to
having an uninhabited and iliac
natural landscape to a real
metropolis of introducing debris
some numbers
we speak of about 18,000
of significant size of about 750
thousand medium-sized objects and about
colleagues a coin and the millions of
Objects of less than one centimeter
the real problem is that only 67
percent of them working
then about 1100 satellites on
remaining 94 percent is constituted by
material over the years has
been accumulated in space and that now
vague to meet the side so you can well
understand how risky impact
against one of them and this is
a very important issue for
Current emissions but also for those
future
Now imagine you are holding a
peanut, and that is more or less the
an average size of debris and
can launch against another object
at a speed of 35,000 40,000
kilometers per hour a thing of all
days short, the effect against this
not other object might be compared
that of a road accident or a
a bullet shot, but that of a
grenade
so I leave to your imagination
it could lead the impact
against a debris the size of a
trucks so with this well
clear in head
you can understand the gravity of the
problem of space debris that thing
do therefore faced with a problem of
Global involvement of this type
for several years the agency nasa
European Space Agency and the community
International have adopted
rules and procedures in order
limit the problem of debris
But these are not enough not
They are sufficient without the removal
active debris and then talk
human intervention
the real problem is how to do this
active removal fact each mechanism
It must have the characteristics
details must be technologically
constructible economically attractive and
most important thing is to be a good
compromised by politically
to overcome these internationally
three tests
these characteristics must must not
then constitute a risk for the
population on the ground so well understood
how difficult it is to deal
this problem
despite this have been proposed
different solutions in the minds and it
we speak for example of rieti or sails
but also a bit more exotic solutions
in this context that the
project to which I belong so star
which it was created by five students
University of Padova, and you can
see behind me, and now I
present from you to
the left found leonardo pilgrim
then there are mattia piebald and downtown
our team leader gilberto fat
then red and then I like alvise
mentioned star is a mechanism for the
unwinding and winding of a wire
this mechanism then goes into space
inserted inside a satellite
greatest mother called the state
that thanks to this wire can give
going to hook this detritus
object and then back to the ground
or launch it say towards
infinity and dold our experience
began in 2015 when the
professor of systems installations
aerospace Padova it seem
francesconi suggested we try
one of those calls every year
The European Space Agency offers
available to students
university to approach them yellow
the first years on research into
space so you can imagine
Our enthusiasm in the face of this
proposal and so it was also born
then want to get involved and
contribute to space research and after
about a year of study and even some
failure in 2016
we had the extraordinary news
to have been selected because of
one of these calls by filing draw more
Artesis that allows you to test the
own experiment in the tower
fall bremen you see my
shoulders and that is one of structure
structures that are both earth to
simulate the condition of the absence of
Space weight
as you see this is a huge tower
which is emptied of the air inside
of which a capsule is launched
containing the experiment with two
mode you are a first mode,
drop mode with which is left
dropping the capsule from the other and with which
They are experienced about 4.7 seconds
weightlessness or mode
catapult is that laid
that which has benefited star and
instead it gives access to 9.3 seconds
weightlessness not to go to our
experience
us at the time of selection
of course after an initial period of
total euphoria
we realized that he had very little
time to bring that in the moment
the selection was a brilliant idea but
as completely abstract to something
then concrete as required by
program, in fact we had about seven
months from March to October to pass
from the idea phase to the phase of tests and then
our limited experience in the field
But the search was not
help
In fact we were proposing something
It is of extremely innovative new and
so there were no books on which
study or of past missions which
lean on one hundred percent
But thanks to the initial input of our
professor of his PhD students
engineer richard mantellato Us
managed to develop the first ideas to
get quickly to a concept
final for the design we
inspired by a mechanism
sconosciutissimo the fishing rod and
we then adapted to the space thing
maybe a first impression can
seem a little trivial, but in reality
what our team has found
face was a real
challenge against years of
study and in fact in the past all
missions that have used children
They had huge mechanisms and much
heavy in which thick wire is
jammed shears must therefore bringing
then the failure of the mission
Our skill instead was just
to adopt a mechanism
simple and light to no space
We never stopped believing to be able to
create despite everything thing we
It helped in the seven months since
however, the difficulties we
faced were very
numerous for example speak of
then solutions that have proved to be not
winning
or orders that have to be repaired or
lack of cooperation with companies
third parties and funds actually in
At first they were almost non-existent
and that there are sometimes even
prevented from buying the components
necessary in some way, however we
able to adapt to situations
then finding the solutions
less expensive alternatives and in a first
now almost at autofinanziandoci
end of September, however, our
experiment was constructed in some
and so in the end we did it with
very many cafes in the body and
even a few sleepless night a bit, however,
at the end of September our
experiment was concrete was there before
to us and so we then flew to bremen
for two weeks maybe
They are among the most weeks
memorable of our lives
during the first week we had
way to deal with the technical and
Experts from the drop tower there
They gave lots of tips and was
an axis a week really
educational and during which we
the latest improvements made to our
We then entered the experiment
within the capsule to see that
After the first week then
Our experiment was ready for what
that it would be the true heart of the
our project
then the trio launches a week
Double 51 a day this week
typical day involved the wake up early
a general controlled
experiment and then maybe
replacement of some component then
there was the inclusion within the
tower and the launch after launch
and was then re-inserted the air
inside the tower was
recovered the capsule and in the evening there was
then the analysis of the behavior and
Any changes to the launch
following
now imagine to condense seven months
Work of dreams labors at times
even a little hopes of despair
in 9 seconds and you can get close in
what you can get close to that
that was our early feeling
This second week and that
But now I was going red button
pressed and then kick off the
launch sequence that would reveal
if those seven months later would lead
in the fruit
Here we were inside the tower
control
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
as you can see in this video
[Music]
old as you have seen in
this video
we are proud to say that our
experiment has been successful in all
five launches and is a result that
surpassed even the most optimistic of
expectations and left space
several projects for our future
and in fact we have recently filed
the patent of our mechanism is
space for new studies and insights
There will then be of publications and
Also we are collecting funds for
participate in national conferences
International and for which we have
already selected at the conclusion of all
I want to emphasize how much each of
We’ve spent energies and dreams for
this project sacrificing lots
hours of work and study and
What fun that not all 23
years nowadays are willing to
do you started from an idea
completely abstract on paper
no funds without really knowing
in detail the object of what
we were creating, and without knowing us and
even very well between us
then get to be a united team
with a common dream and then we are proud
it has demonstrated that with the commitment the
determination and passion
the results sooner or later we will not tipino
we know if our mechanism will
never considered by some agency
Space will fly or if the important thing
But it is that everyone has tried and
is still trying to write a
little piece of history and who knows
perhaps in a not too distant future
we can say we have contributed to
back space and a free place
pristine as we all do us know
imagine
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
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