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Politecnico di Milano DEMANUFACTURING 14th July 2017 1/4 Name / Nome Surname / Cognome Matriculation N./Matricola GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS  Write your name, surname and matriculation number in CAPITAL letters in the above box and on your exam paper sheets  During the exam, ONLY the official lesson material and the suggested additional material are allowed  Exercise material, solved exercises or personal notes are NOT allowed.  Write using a pen; pencil written texts will not be considered.  The written text is the only official document which will determine the final mark  Report all your hypotheses  Report the used formulae, the complete procedure and the numerical results  Report all the graphs on your exam paper sheets  It is possible to attach a folder with the files used to solve the exercises  The files will be opened by the reviewer only to solve possible open issues during the exam correction  The files must be blank at the beginning of the exam  Exam Time and Exercises:  2.30 hours EXERCISE 1 MIT Development Group ( MIT-DG) is an American spin-off of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) headquartered in Boston. MIT-DG provides an unmatched breadth of product development capabilities, from research through production, that improve a project’s speed to market. The team is composed by industrial designers, app developers, mechanical and aerospace engineers, and prototype specialists. Its R&D team is now collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the design and development of a miniaturized satellite for space research (i.e. CubSat), called MIT-SAT. MIT-SAT is a CubeSat with a mass of about 3 kg and a side length of 12 cm. The spacecraft is spin - stabilized,…