ALESSANDRO FANNI, CEO.
CShark
Alessandro Fanni holds the position of Founder & Managing Director and Research and Development Director of Cshark S.r.l., an innovative start-up company from Piacenza. He is the founder of Cshark Solutions and Cshark S.r.l.
In 2019 the software created by Cshark S.r.l., was awarded by Milano Finanza as one of the 100 innovative products for the digitisation of companies and was also mentioned in an article by Forbes France. In 2022, Cshark S.r.l launched their first nano-satellite ‘Pilot-1’ via SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
Alessandro collaborates with various partners and research centres such as the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, ESA, ASI, and the Universities of Bologna and Pavia.
Presentation Synopsis:
“CSHARK PILOT 2P PICOSAT”
CSHARK PILOT 2P picosat: a new bi-directional multi-band solution for IOT and edge computing applications patented at European level. Using the PONGO integrated development environment and the CSHARK ground segment, it provides an immediate approach to accessing generated Big Data and distributed AI. PILOT presents in a small 2P size all the reference technology on the market and was created for two-way communication with IOT nodes operating in the 868-915 MHZ and 2.4GHz band. CSHARK produced all subsystems in-house such as the OBC (based on ARM Microchip INC), the EPS (with redundant charging lines >40% power budget high density cells) and the innovative SOLAR PANEL (>30% efficiency), the ADCS (with 98% efficiency motors), the KOUBE bi-band LoRa gateway, the KORA miniaturised bi-directional S-BAND LoRa gateway, also introducing the ION thruster technology that extends the flight time by at least twice as much and gives the possibility of active control over the satellite.
The project envisages the launch of the first second-generation satellites in 2023 to achieve worldwide coverage in late 2023 and early 2024.
The network will have the key feature of being star-to-star with intrasat links in K-BAND that will enable the interchange of on-board information, significantly reducing the number of ground stations needed by reducing latency times for uplink and downlink.
The subsystems employed and the introduction of miniaturised active attitude control will be presented.