2021
Founded
24
Team members
60%
With a PhD
170+
Publications in GNC
10
ESA contracts as prime
WHAT DRIVES US
WHAT WE DO
We take missions from the first study to the last manoeuvre. We design the trajectory, navigate the spacecraft in flight and build the software that automates flight dynamics, for institutional and commercial missions from Earth orbit to deep space.
Where we are heading
We are building a future where every spacecraft navigates itself: constellations that manage themselves, missions that reach the Moon and beyond without waiting for the ground, and satellites that see and avoid collisions on their own, on board.
Our Team
The people leading Nautilus
Alfredo
CEO & Co-founder
Alessandro
Morselli. PhD
CTO & Co-founder
Luis Gomez
Casajus, PhD
COO & Co-founder
Marco
Maggi
CFO
Leads Nautilus’ on-board systems. PhD from Politecnico di Milano and MSc from TU Delft, with a career across Europe, Japan and the US, he specialises in vision-based navigation and AI for small-body missions such as Hera, Milani and DESTINY+.
Leads Nautilus’ ground applications and flight dynamics software. PhD from the University of Bologna on the navigation of the ArgoMoon cislunar CubeSat, he contributes to ESA’s GODOT as a Visiting Expert at ESOC.
Co-leads Nautilus’ ground applications. Aerospace engineer from Politecnico di Milano, focused on mission analysis and orbital mechanics, he develops flight dynamics, navigation and optimisation software for operational and study projects.
Leads program control and quality across Nautilus’ projects. PhD from the University of Bologna on the deep-space orbit determination of LICIACube, he was part of the navigation team for LICIACube and ArgoMoon.
Mattia
Pugliatti, PhD
Head of On-Board Systems
Marco
Lombardo
Head of Ground Applications
Alessio
Quinci
Deputy Head of Ground Applications
Igor
Gai
Head of Program Control & Quality
Leads Nautilus’ strategy and operations. PhD from the University of Bologna on GNSS-based navigation for small satellites, with years of systems engineering on flight hardware, including the GNSS payload of ESA’s ESEO mission.
Leads Nautilus’ technology and engineering. PhD from Politecnico di Milano on space debris and collision avoidance, and former Flight Dynamics Engineer at ESA/ESOC, where he supported routine and critical operations, including LEOPs, for Earth-orbiting and deep-space missions.
Leads Nautilus’ operations. Orbit determination specialist with a PhD from the University of Bologna and a former visiting researcher at NASA JPL, he has worked on missions including Cassini, Juno and BepiColombo, and on the operational navigation of LICIACube and ArgoMoon.
Leads Nautilus’ strategic and financial management. Background in international management and space entrepreneurship at the University of Bologna, where his research focused on business strategies for space spin-offs.
Where things get real
FACILITIES
FACILITIES
Two site
Offices in Milan and Forlì
Two sites, close to the universities where Nautilus was born.
FACILITIES
Navigation room
Navigation Room
A dedicated room for real-time flight dynamics operations.
FACILITIES
Fully equipped lab
Fully equipped lab
Where on-board systems and ADCS hardware are developed and tested.
Partners & institutions
Working with the
Working with the
space community
We work alongside space agencies, research institutions and industry partners, from early studies to missions in flight.
The people behind every mission
Engineers, researchers and operators who navigate spacecraft every day, and build the tools that will let them navigate themselves.
careers