Michele Lombardi

My work focuses on developing technologies that give spacecraft a direct understanding of their physical condition. I work across electronics, embedded systems, software and intelligent sensing, with a particular focus on integrating monitoring capabilities directly into spacecraft hardware. This includes external surfaces, multi-layer insulation and structural fasteners, turning impacts, damage and changes in structural integrity into useful and actionable data. I am currently focused on bringing these technologies from laboratory validation toward in-orbit demonstration, combining hardware development, data acquisition and system integration. The broader goal is to make structural awareness a native capability of future spacecraft, providing operators with direct physical evidence of what happens to a vehicle throughout its mission and supporting more informed decisions on safety, health monitoring and operations.