Italian Space Agency

Giuseppe Codispoti received the degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy and a Master of Science’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. During his graduate studies, he was involved in class projects at the Caltech/ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena with the responsibility of the communication aspects. From 1993 to 2000 he was with Alenia Spazio, Rome (now Thales Alenia Space Italia) at the “On board Active Antennas Department” as designer, project and program manager in either Telecommunication or Remote Sensing programs. In March 2000, he joined ASI, the Italian Space Agency, where he has been involved in projects regarding microgravity, remote sensing and telecommunications. At the moment, he works in the Telecommunication and Navigation Division and he is the responsible of the Q/V Band Program of the Agency. He has been appointed as delegate and expert of the Italian Government in delegations of international bodies such as ESA, European Space Agency and UNO, United Nations Organization. He is member of Technical and Scientific Committees of public Foundations. He is tutor of PhD students of Italian universities. He acts as Mission Manager for the Civil Italian payload aboard ATHENA FIDUS  geostationary satellite, and poc for the Telecommunication part of the NASI ASI Agreement on ARTEMIS Accords.