Marco Bassetto received the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2019. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Space Systems at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa. His research activity focuses on trajectory design and attitude control of spacecraft equipped with low-thrust propulsion systems such as solar sails and electric solar wind sails.

Alessandro A. Quarta received his Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Pisa in 2005 and, currently, he is Professor of Flight Mechanics at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa. His main research areas include spaceflight simulation, spacecraft mission analysis and design, low-thrust trajectory optimization, and solar sail and E-sail dynamics and control.