Claudio Maccone

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Claudio Maccone is a space scientist born in Turin (Torino), Italy, on February 6, 1948. He obtained his PhD at the Department of Mathematics of King's College London in 1980. He then joined the Space Systems Group of Aeritalia (now called Alenia Aerospazio S.p.A.) in Turin as a technical expert for the design of artificial satellites, and got involved in the design of space missions. He also published two books “Telecommunications, KLT and Relativity” in 1994 and “The Sun as a Gravitational Lens: Proposed Space Missions” in 1998 (both at IPI Press, USA). His second book was awarded the “1999 Book Award for the Engineering Sciences” by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). In 2000 he was elected as Co-Vice Chair of the SETI Committee of the IAA. In 2001 the Asteroid 11264 was named “Claudiomaccone” in his honor by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). In 2002 he was awarded the “Giordano Bruno Award” by the SETI League. He has published over 70 scientific and technical papers, most of them in “Acta Astronautica.”