Nautilus – Navigation in Space S.r.l.
headquarter:
Registered Office: Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin, 48, 40127 (BO), Italy
Main Office: Forlì, Piazzale Estanislao Kowal 2, 47122 (FC), Italy
Office: Milano, Via Giovanni Durando 39, 20158 (MI), Italy
website:
contacts:
Alfredo Locarini
CEO
alfredo.locarini@spacenautilus.com
Tel. +39 349 6872224
Marco Maggi
CFO
marco.maggi@spacenautilus.com
Tel. +39 333 3681119
About
Nautilus is an Italian space company specializing in satellite flight dynamics and attitude dynamics, with expertise in mission design, navigation, orbit determination, guidance and spacecraft operations.
With a strong focus on lunar and deep-space missions, Nautilus is the only private company in Europe with operational heritage in deep-space navigation. Its expertise also covers complex LEO scenarios, including satellite constellations and in-orbit servicing.
Building on this experience, Nautilus is developing EON, an onboard navigation, guidance and collision avoidance system that enables spacecraft to navigate, plan manoeuvres and react autonomously, reducing reliance on ground operations. EON is complemented by NEMO, Nautilus’ proprietary flight dynamics software platform for mission analysis and spacecraft operations.
Founded in 2021 by researchers and professors from the University of Bologna and Politecnico di Milano, Nautilus has served as Prime Contractor on numerous ESA and ASI contracts, ranging from deep-space mission feasibility studies to innovative technology developments for future space missions. The company also works with leading players across the European space industry.
Main Markets
- Europe
References
- AGENZIA SPAZIALE ITALIANA
- EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
- POLITECNICO DI MILANO
- UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
- ESA BIC MILANO
- SPACE FOUNDERS
- Q STATION
- NTEA SAN PAOLO UP2STARS
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Products & Services
Nautilus provides specialized solutions across flight dynamics, GNC and spacecraft autonomy, including:
- Mission Analysis & Design— requirements definition, feasibility assessment, tech-nical budgets, performance evaluation, mission trade-off studies, end-to-end trajec-tory and orbit design for LEO, lunar and deep-space missions.
- Ground-Based Navigation Services — orbit determination, radiometric and optical navigation, tracking data processing and operational navigation support.
- Conjunction Assessment & Collision Avoidance — conjunction monitoring, colli-sion risk assessment and avoidance manoeuvre design for individual spacecraft and constellations.
- ADCS Design & Software Implementation — design, analysis and implementation of attitude determination and control algorithms, including flight software development.
- Onboard Autonomous Navigation & Guidance — development of onboard algo-rithms and software for autonomous navigation, orbit determination, guidance and manoeuvre planning. Nautilus’ EON solution integrates onboard navigation, guidance and collision avoidance capabilities, while custom architectures and software can be developed for mission-specific needs.
- Ground Flight Dynamics Software — development of operational software for mis-sion analysis, orbit determination, manoeuvre planning, navigation and spacecraft op-erations. Nautilus’ proprietary NEMO platform provides a modular flight dynamics environment, complemented by fully customized solutions when required.
- CubeSat ADCS Test Bed — proprietary testing infrastructure developed by Nautilus for advanced ADCS validation, integrating a Helmholtz cage, Sun simulator and air-bearing platform to reproduce representative in-orbit conditions and support high-fidelity functional and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Machine Learning for Space Applications — development of machine-learning-based solutions for navigation, autonomous operations, data processing and other space-system applications.
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