Space Program Management

Chapter 1: Space Activities - A Peculiar Economical, Political, and Industrial Sector.- Chapter 2: Space Programs Management.- Chapter 3: Marketing of Space Programs.- Chapter 4: Methods and Tools of Space Programs Management.- Chapter 5: Risk Management of Space Programs.- Chapter 6: Cost Management in Space Programs.- Chapter 7: Financial Management of Space Programs.- Chapter 8: Management of Small, Low Cost Space Programs - A New Paradigm.- Chapter 9: Examples of Management Applied to Different Space Programs.- Acronyms.- Bibliography.- Websites.- Index.

Marcello Spagnulo, graduated in Aeronautical Engineering, has been a space professional since the mid 1980s. After many years working in major space programs, first at the European Space Agency - European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and then at the Arianespace French consortium in Evry. In French Guyana, he joined Alenia Space Italia (now Thales Alenia Space) and Finmeccanica SpA in Rome covering various management roles. He now works at the Italian Space Agency as Staff of the President. Spagnulo has written over 50 scientific papers and publications, two books on space exploration history and astronomy, and a professional book on space program management. He teaches space systems engineering at the Universities La Sapienza and Tor Vergata in Rome and he also teaches professional courses on space systems at the Masters in Space Policy SIOI of the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister.

Rick Fleeter, graduated in Aerospace Propulsion Engineering, has also been a space professional since the early 1980s. He founded and was CEO of the first company in the U.S. dedicated to small, low-cost spacecraft, from 1988 to 2008. He has written the only two books on microspace, Micro Space Craft (The Edge City Press, 1992) and The Logic of Mircospace (Springer, 2000). After many years working in major space programs, having developed 24 small spacecraft, he escaped to the small satellite environment. He now teaches space systems engineering, design and technology transfer at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and at University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy. Fleeter also works at the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as a consultant. He teaches professional courses worldwide on small space and space program management, and he continues to behave as if small spacecraft can and should take over the world.

Federico Nasini is in charge of the Finance and Insurance Department atThales Alenia Space