Claudio Maccone
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Claudio Maccone is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is an Italian space scientist. In 2002 he was awarded the “Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited...
Award” by the SETI
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League, "for his efforts to establish a radio observatory on the far side of the Moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
." In 2010 he was appointed Technical Director of Scientific Space exploration of the International Academy of Astronautics
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.
Career
He obtained his PhDPHD
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at the Department of Mathematics
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of King's College London
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in 1980. He then joined the Space Systems Group of Aeritalia
Aeritalia
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(later called Alenia Spazio S.p.A. and now Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A.) in Turin as a technical expert for the design of artificial satellites, and got involved in the design of space missions. In 2000 he was elected as Co-Vice Chair of the SETI
SETI
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Some of the most well known projects are run by the SETI Institute. SETI projects use scientific methods to search for intelligent life...
Committee of the IAA. He has published over 70 scientific and technical papers, most of them in “Acta Astronautica.” In 2010, Maccone was appointed Technical Director of Scientific Space Missions for the International Academy of Astronautics.
Books
His first book was “Telecommunications, KLT and RelativityTheory of relativity
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” in 1994 and his second book was “The Sun
Sun
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as a Gravitational Lens
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: Proposed Space Missions” in 1998 (both at IPI Press, USA). Maccone's third book "Deep Space Flight and Communications" was published by Praxis-Springer in 2009.
Honours and Awards
His second book was awarded the “1999 Book Award for the Engineering Sciences” by the International Academy of AstronauticsInternational Academy of Astronautics
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(IAA).
In 2001 the Asteroid
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11264 was named “Claudiomaccone” in his honor by the International Astronomical Union
International Astronomical Union
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(IAU). In 2002 he was awarded the “Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited...
Award” by the SETI League, "for his efforts to establish a radio observatory on the far side of the Moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
. The League considered it notable that Maccone was the first Italian to win the award, which is named after Italian monk Giordano Bruno.
External links
- Deep Space Flight and Communications Talk at the SETI InstituteSETI InstituteThe SETI Institute is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to “explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe”. SETI stands for the "search for extraterrestrial intelligence". One program is the use of both radio and optical telescopes to search...
, 11/25/2009, @youtube (Retrieved 09/30/2011) - Habitable Planet Statistics - Claudio Maccone (SETI Talks)@youtube
- Claudio Maccone@ ADSAstrophysics Data SystemThe Astrophysics Data System , developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , is an online database of over eight million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources...