Profile
Teaching
Teaching activity
Teaching responsibility for modules/courses
- Spaceflight mechanics (cod. 510II) per Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria aerospaziale
Research
Publications
- Optimal trajectories for a spacecraft propelled by an E-sail with piecewise inertially-fixed attitude (Niccolai, Lorenzo - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Decay time estimate for LEO spacecraft (Niccolai, Lorenzo; Mengali, Giovanni - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Preliminary design of a space debris removal mission in LEO using a solar sail (Bianchi, C.; Niccolai, L.; Mengali, G.; Ceriotti, M. - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Optimal deep-space heliocentric transfers with an electric sail and an electric thruster (Niccolai, L. - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Electric Sail Test Cube–Lunar Nanospacecraft, ESTCube-LuNa: Solar Wind Propulsion Demonstration Mission Concept (Slavinskis, Andris; Palos, Mario F.; Dalbins, Janis; Janhunen, Pekka; Tajmar, Martin; Ivchenko, Nickolay; Rohtsalu, Agnes; Micciani, Aldo; Orsini, Nicola; Mattias Moor, Karl; Kuzmin, Sergei; Bleiders, Marcis; Donerblics, Marcis; Ofodile, Ikechukwu; Kütt, Johan; Eenmäe, Tõnis; Allik, Viljo; Viru, Jaan; Halapuu, Pätris; Kristmann, Katriin; Sate, Janis; Briede, Endija; Anger, Marius; Aas, Katarina; Plonis, Gustavs; Teras, Hans; Allaje, Kristo; Vaivads, Andris; Niccolai, Lorenzo; Bassetto, Marco; Mengali, Giovanni; Toivanen, Petri; Iakubivskyi, Iaroslav; Pajusalu, Mihkel; Tamm, Antti - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Performance Estimate of a Spin-Stabilized Drag Sail for Spacecraft Deorbiting (Niccolai, Lorenzo; Mengali, Giovanni - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Optimal deep-space heliocentric transfers with an electric sail and an electric thruster (Niccolai, L. - 2023 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Exploration of Asteroids and Comets with Innovative Propulsion Systems (Niccolai, L; Quarta, A; Mengali, G - 2023 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Displaced Non-Keplerian Orbits for Sun and Inner Planet Observation (Niccolai, L; Quarta, A; Mengali, G - 2023 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Analysis of Smart Dust-Based Frozen Orbits Around Mercury (Aliasi, G; Niccolai, L; Quarta, A; Mengali, G - 2023 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))