Arianna Rigo

Ms. Arianna Rigo

Aerospace Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
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Biography

Arianna Rigo is an space and astronautics engineer specializing in orbital dynamics, space weather, and mission safety software development. She holds a double master’s degree in Space and Astronautics Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. Since November 2025, Arianna works for the European Space Agency’s at the Space Weather Office in ESOC (Darmstadt, Germany), where she advances the integration of data-driven technologies and space weather monitoring. Previously, from 11/2024 to 10/2025, Arianna worked as a Space Situational Awareness Software Engineer at Deimos Space in Madrid, where she supported real-time operations for the Spanish Space Surveillance and Tracking Operations Centre (S3TOC). Her work involved software development, system analysis, and optimization of telescope and radar performance. Before 11/2024, she was an SSA Junior Researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR Lisboa), where she collaborated with Neuraspace on smarter space traffic management. In her free time, Arianna continues to collaborate with her professors from IST on scientific research and paper publications related to orbital dynamics and space safety.

Affiliations

Instituto Superior Técnico

Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

Aerospace Engineering

Sapienza University

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Space and Astronautics Engineering

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