Creator Spotlight: Davide Nejoumi

Davide Nejoumi, 23, from Rome, builds satellites for Space X through his startup Delta Space Leonis, an innovative aerospace company based in Rome's Tecnopolo technology center. Built on a deep interest in space that started at a young age and a lot of determination, in 2021, after an incredible succession of regional tenders, Nejoumi has fulfilled his dream of aiming to make space more more accessible, affordable and bringing it closer to people.< /p>

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"When I was 12, I asked for a telescope as a gift and, like Galileo, a world opened up to me," says Nejoumi. An aerospace engineering student at La Sapienza University in Rome, a volunteer for the emergency services and a space enthusiast, Nejoumi's story is like that of many young engineers. “In 2019, I won a “Torno subito” scholarship to go to Shanghai. I then won a tender launched by the regional authority of Lazio. I submitted my startup idea, which I launched in 2021. We set up the team on October 25 of the same year and barely a month later, we participated in the Espace Meeting in Turin. Here, we were contacted by an Indian company that was to prepare a launch into space with Elon Musk's SpaceX company: they needed a satellite and they asked us to build it. In 2023, we will be in orbit ab...