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About Simone Del Togno
Simone Del Togno is a thermal and radiation engineer in the Planetary Sensor Systems department at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin. His main task is to ensure that the scientific instruments developed here survive and function correctly in space. He contributes to the design and testing of the instrument prototypes.
Simone has worked on several instruments: the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) on the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, the JANUS camera and the Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) on the ESA JUICE mission to Jupiter, the fast electronics of the PLATO space telescope, and the infrared spectroscopes VenSpec-M, for the ESA EnVision mission, and VEM, for the NASA/JPL VERITAS mission, both destined for Venus.