The School of Aeronautical Engineering was founded back in 1926 at the University of Rome. Starting from the 1960’s the School’s activities began focusing mainly in astronautics; professors and technicians of the School designed and manufactured the satellites of the San Marco series. Thanks to the launch of the first satellite of the series, in 1964 Italy became the third nation in the world, after USA and USSR, to inject its own satellite in orbit. In 1997 the School started an educational program called UniSat, having the students themselves busy in designing and manufacturing School's microsatellites. Since then, the School has become a worldwide flagship institution in astronautics, and such a prestigious role will be strengthened in the future with the launch in 2022, of the new spacecraft LARES-2 and AstroBioCubeSat. Nowadays, in addition to didactic activities, the School leads several research projects with major entities of the aerospace sector via its numerous laboratories, with disciplines ranging from space structures, navigation, propulsion to Earth Observation, flight mechanics and thermal-vacuum testing.