Name: 2025 Glue Technologies for Space Systems Technical Panel Ph.D. Summer School
Start: 2025-09-01T12:00:00+0000
End: 2025-09-05T12:00:00+0000
Location: Rome. Italy

The AESS Glue Technologies for Space Systems Technical Panel is proud to announce the organization of the fifth edition of the Summer School: “Frontier Technologies for Space 2.0 Communications” from 1-5 September 2025, both in person at the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and online.

This event has been successfully attended online by students worldwide during the first three editions (2021-2024). This year the Summer School will host it's first in person version of the program. The Summer School will offer cutting-edge lectures held by leading experts recognized at the international level concerning the most advanced topics about “New Space” communication technologies.

We wish to thank you in advance for your participation in the Summer School. For questions, please send an email to Prof. Claudio Sacchi ((Click to show email)).

Details

When: 1-5 September 2025
Where: Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Virtually on Zoom (The link will be sent out to registered participants one week before the event.) To find information on accommodation and hotels, please visit the documents tab above.
Registration: Free, but registration is required. Register by 18 August 2025.
Credits: Please indicate on the registration form if you intend to take the exam following the course. If you wish to receive credit for this course, you will need to take the exam. Otherwise, a certificate of attendance (with no credit) will be delivered upon request.

Who Should Attend?

The Summer School is open to Master's and Ph.D. students and academic and industrial research fellows who want to increase their knowledge about new trends in space communication and networking research.

Schedule

(Times listed in CEST)

Day 1: Monday, 1 September

9:00 AM-9:15 AM - Welcome to the Participants (Roberto Battiston, University of Trento, Italy) - Remote
9:15 AM-10:30 AM - Part 1 - "Space 2.0”: the New Space Revolution 80 years after A.C. Clarke (Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Italy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Marina Ruggieri, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy) - In Person
10:30 AM-11:10 AM - Coffee Break
11:15 AM-12:30 PM - Part 2 - "Space 2.0”: the New Space Revolution 80 years after A.C. Clarke - Part 1 (Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Italy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Marina Ruggieri, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy) - In Person
12:30 PM-2:15 PM - Lunch Break
2:30 PM-4:30 PM - Inter-panel Invited Lecture - A Look at the Stars: LEO PNT with Non-cooperative Satellites (Zak Kassas, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) - In Person

Day 2: Tuesday, 2 September

9:00 AM–11:00 AM - Part 1 - The Space Situational Awareness as a capability tool for the Safety and Security of the Space Environment and Space Operations (Lt. Col. Claudio Gizzi, Lt. Col. Claudio Gabellini, Italian Air Force, Italy)
11:00 AM-11:30 AM - Coffee Break
11:30 AM–12:30 PM - Part 2 - The Space Situational Awareness as a capability tool for the Safety and Security of the Space Environment and Space Operations (Lt. Col. Claudio Gizzi, Lt. Col. Claudio Gabellini, Italian Air Force, Italy)
12:30-2:15 PM - Lunch Break
2:30 PM-4:30 PM - RESTART Invited Lecture: Non-Terrestrial Networks beyond 6G: the ITA-NTN project experience (Simone Morosi, University of Florence and CNIT, Italy) - In Person
4:30 PM-7:30 PM - End-to-end engineering approach for Space Systems (Kar-Ming Cheung, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) of NASA, Pasadena, CA) - Remote

Day 3: Wednesday, 3 September

9:00 AM-10:20 AM - Part 1 - Space Softwarization: from Physical Layer to Services (Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy; Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Italy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Alessandro Guidotti, University of Bologna, Italy) - In Person
10:20 AM-10:50 AM - Coffee Break
10:50 AM-12:10 PM - Part 2 - Space Softwarization: from Physical Layer to Services (Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy; Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Italy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Alessandro Guidotti, University of Bologna, Italy) - In Person
12:30 PM-2:15 PM - Lunch Break
2:30 PM-4:30 PM - Inter-panel Invited Lecture #2 - Challenges and Advances in Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management (Giancarmine Fasano, University of Naples, "Frederico II", Napoli, Italy) - In Person
4:30 PM-7:00 PM -Software Defined Radio for Satellite Communications (Eugene Grayver, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA) - Remote

Day 4: Thursday, 4 September

9:00 AM-10:20 AM - Part 1 - Satellite Networking in "5G and beyond" scenarios (Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy; Fabio Patrone, University of Genoa, Italy; Mohammed Slim Alouini, KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) - Remote
10:20 AM-10:50 AM - Coffee Break
10:50 AM-12:10 PM - Part 2 - Satellite Networking in "5G and beyond" scenarios (Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy; Fabio Patrone, University of Genoa, Italy; Mohammed Slim Alouini, KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) - Remote
12:30 PM-2:15 PM - Lunch Break
2:30 PM-5:30 PM - Extra-terrestrial Navigation and Communications (Cosimo Stallo, ESA, UK; Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento, Italy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM) - In Person

Day 5: Friday, 5 September

9:00 AM-10:20 AM - Part 1 - EHF for satellite communication: the latest developments (Giuseppe Codispoti, ASI, Italy; Giorgia Parca, ASI, Italy; Tommaso Rossi, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) - Hybrid
10:20 AM-10:50 AM - Coffee Break
10:50 AM-12:10 PM - Part 2 - EHF for satellite communication: the latest developments (Giuseppe Codispoti, ASI, Italy; Giorgia Parca, ASI, Italy; Tommaso Rossi, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) - Hybrid
12:30 PM-2:15 PM - Lunch Break
2:30 PM-5:30 PM - Space Quantum Communications (Riccardo Bassoli, Technical University of Dresden, Germany; Janis Nötzel, Technical University of Munich, Germany)
5:30 PM-6:15 PM - School Conclusion with aperitif

Final Online Test (for credits)

The date for the Final Test will be communication during the first day of the school in agreement with all students.

Organizing Committee

This Summer School is organized by the University of Trento, University of Genoa, and the University of Roma "Tor Vergata". If you have any questions, please contact Professor Claudio Sacchi.

Support

The event is organized by the AESS Glue Technologies for Space Systems Technical Panel and is co-sponsored by IEEE AESS. Special thank you to the Italian Space Agency for hosting the event and to the European Union under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) of NextGenerationEU partnership on "Telecommunications of the Future" (PE00000001 - program "RESTART") for your support.

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