Federico Giusto
Federico Giusto is an Italian-Luxembourgish aerospace professional, currently working as the Mission Operations Manager at ispace inc Europe, a lunar exploration company, in Luxembourg City.[1] He also served as Spacecraft Operations Engineer and Pilot for the M1 HAKUTO-R lunar lander mission, where he oversaw Lander telemetry and commanded real-time flight operations from the European Mission Control Room in Luxembourg and primary Mission Control Centre in Tokyo, Japan. He sent ispace's first ever commands to space and last commands to the spacecraft as it approached the moon for its landing attempt in Q2 2023, and was amongst the first Italian-Luxembourgish professionals ever to command a lunar lander spacecraft in flight.[2]
Education and Career[edit]
Federico graduated in 2018 with a First-Class master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, with a First-Class degree thesis in machine learning frameworks for water stress assessments in developing countries using drone and satellite technologies, and a First-Class group project to design, manufacture, test, and fly an unmanned air vehicle fopr target detection and humanitarian relief.[3] In 2016, he joined General Electric Aerospace UK as an Avionics Systems Engineering Intern, working on the company's commercial and military. He was involved in the creation, testing, and validation of scripts for the new Boeing 777X aircraft's flight control surfaces.[4] In addition to developing computer models and doing testing and scripting for the project, he oversaw a small group of interns who helped with various aspects of the job. In January 2020, the aircraft made its first successful takeoff and is now widely used in global fleets. In 2017, Federico led his team of GE interns to win the General Electric Open Innovation Challenge with a submission based on their work for the Boeing 777X project and a virtual toolchain designed to replicate aircraft functionalities. In 2018, Federico started working as a Robotics Engineer at the Amazon EU Headquarters in Luxembourg before joining ispace. There, he developed and implemented the company's next generation of autonomous robots, which were intended to improve its fulfilment operations inside the EU supply chain. Amongst his contributions, he supported the creation, scaling, and deployment of company's end-to-end palletizing system in Dortmund, Germany, and the primary cross-distribution centre in Europe.[5]
In 2019, Federico joined ispace inc. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a deep space exploration startup working on the world's first commercial lunar program. He has covered a number of roles and responsibilities in engineering and management starting as a Space Systems Engineer, where he led systems engineering work for ispace inc's next-generation Lunar Rovers produced in Europe, including configuration management, functional modelling, and operations design. Then, he served the company as the Spacecraft Operations Engineer for the M1 HAKUTO-R lunar mission (which flew between December 2022 and April 2023), where he received formal certification in the role of Spacecraft Controller (Pilot) for the Lunar Lander.[6] He was also responsible for the definition, development, validation, and deployment of the European Mission Control Centre in Luxembourg. He now works as Mission Operations Manager for the ispace inc M2 Rover mission, where he is responsible for the design, definition, and deployment of the flight and ground segments for the rover mission, leading a local team of operators, engineers, and scientists from Luxembourg in close collaboration with Tokyo management and engineering leadership.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ DALESIO, Emery Peter (2021-10-20). "Luxembourg's space businesses: Ready for take-off?". luxembourg-times-online. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ "ispace reveals lunar rover for second Moon mission". The Engineer. 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ "Luxembourg and ispace, a Tokyo-Based Lunar Robotic Exploration Company, Sign MoU to Co-Operate within the Spaceresources.lu Initiative". Business Wire. 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ Luxembourg, U.S. Mission (2020-12-09). "NASA Selects Luxembourg's ispace Europe for Sale of Moon Sample". U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ DALESIO, Emery Peter (2023-11-17). "Rover made in Luxembourg headed to the moon". luxembourg-times-online. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ Campo, Antonio Lo (2023-01-08). "Il viaggio verso la Luna di "Hakuto M-1", la sonda robotizzata giapponese". La Stampa (in italiano). Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ↑ Foust, Jeff (2018-03-21). "New fund to boost Japanese space startups". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
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