Riccardo Alessandro Bevoni · Aerospace engineering
From lunar power budgets to custom rocket PCBs, I like work where a design decision has a measurable consequence.
I’m a dual-degree master’s student at CU Boulder, studying Bioastronautics and Engineering Management.
Available throughout summer 2027 · Boulder, Colorado
Selected projects
My contributions, the engineering choices, and the evidence behind the results. All projects →
01 Italian Space Agency + bachelor’s thesis
I built a Python model to size vertical solar arrays and storage for a lunar habitat. Under the reference assumptions, batteries account for 60% of the modeled power-system mass, including margin.
Custom PCBs · Aurora Rocketry02 Aurora Rocketry · Borealis & Nemesis
I designed most of the ground-station PCB, contributed to the onboard board, and developed Nemesis’s telemetry link. A recovery-system failure at EuRoC 2025 changed how we verified components before integration.
03 YUE · CU Boulder · Ongoing
I lead a ten-person team through preliminary design. One current decision: run air filtration from launch, or activate it 24 hours before crew arrival?
Mission schematic · Preliminary architecture
See the filtration trade-off04 Airbus Nova Horizon workshop
lower pressure fluctuations
in the simulated comparison
I led the multiphase sloshing analysis in ANSYS Fluent, comparing a tank with a waist constriction and perforated baffles against a baseline.
Multiphase CFD · Load-envelope integration
Read the CFD studyIndustry experience
Practical work in mechanical components and vehicle electrification alongside my aerospace projects.
Explore these roles ↗Battery-pack, inverter, and auxiliary power-electronics integration and testing, with wiring diagrams and harness layouts for heavy vehicles.
My integration work →CAD models and technical drawings for structural metal components, including GD&T, dimensional inspection, and adjustments following nonconformities.
My mechanical work →Why this work
I consider the ISS one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The idea that people continuously live and work beyond Earth is what drew me toward habitats and life support.
At ASI, I studied the technologies needed for lunar habitation. At CU Boulder, I am learning to connect crew needs to engineering requirements while taking responsibility for a multidisciplinary team’s design decisions.
I am particularly interested in CO₂ removal and water and oxygen recovery, and in how technologies developed for space could help people in extreme environments on Earth.
More about my background ↗Engineering notes
Selected notes on rocket avionics, simulation, and lunar habitation. Browse all 9 notes →
An earlier project note on liquid motion, tank geometry, and vehicle-level loads.
An earlier note on the path from sensor data to the ground station.
Background on the lunar habitat program that later became part of my ASI work.
Summer 2027
I am looking for an internship in habitat systems, power, ECLSS, or hardware integration and testing.