Luigi Broglio was an engineer of the Italian Air Force born in 1911 died in 2001 who discovered an innovative method of structural calculation that had the advantage of greatly simplifying the calculations of complex structures variously stressed, known later as Balanced Force Method.
Later the Method of the Bilateral Forces allowed Broglio, for the first time in the history of aeronautics, to effectively calculate the stresses on an arrow-shaped wing structure.
Thanks to the notoriety gained thanks to its innovative methods of calculation, Broglio was noticed by NASA and the academic world. His prized fans were Stepan Timoshenko, EF Bruhn and Hugh Dryden, who later became the director of NASA.
The approach to NASA made him grow in the passion for space, which he devoted himself to for the rest of his life.
Broglio, then, gave life to the School of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and conceived theSan Marco Project, a cooperation project between Italy and the USA that has brought to the orbit of the first Italian satellite, the San Marco 1, Which was also the first satellite in the world launched independently by a country other than the US and the USSR. The launch was made on 15 December 1964 from the base of Wallops Island in the United States, thanks to a rocket carrier Scout. The vector was built with materials disposed of by NASA and with the help of the Italian Air Force. Broglio then managed the current one Luigi Broglio Space Center in Malindi (Kenya) up to 1988, when the base has not been used anymore.
Therefore, there has always been a close correlation between Italian aeronautics and astronautics. An armed force that provides the best staff as gthe astronauts who are or have been official pilots of the Blue Army, Nespoli, Vittori, Cristoforetti, Parmitano, or ingeneri and doctors with stars that perform studies and research of the highest and proven level for experimentation in aerospace.
Another aspect that deserves the necessary attention is not to be underpinned, in the light of the changes in geopolitics which, as we now see it, is increasingly projected towards Space. For years there has been talk of the Space Economy, a pity that for about a decade the United States, Russia and China have already gone to the facts. France and Germany are ahead of Italy and are studying and implementing programs for the affirmation in space in order to defend their sovereignty on Earth.
But what is the Space Economy
3 thousand billion in twenty years, this is the figure that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and even Bank of America predict for the Space Economy. Meryl Lynch and the United Nations space agency are the most trusting and go beyond forecasts. Among the 500 richest businessmen in the world, 16, from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, invest in the sector, but there is also a flourishing of space agencies, innovative startups and very creative SMEs that do a lot to do in this regard.
The director of the UN-based space agency in Vienna, Simonetta Di Pippo, in Bremen at the recent world-wide conference on astronautics, Iac2018 confirmed the 3000 billion within the 2040. The United States, with 40 billions of dollars a year on average they lead the ranking, followed by China and Russia.
However, the Space Agencies in the world are more than 80, including two in Algeria and Bolivia who are increasingly looking at the opportunities of a new economic concept applied to space.
A major shock to the space market could come from US President Donald Trump's decision to give birth to a new Armed Force, the "Space Force"Dedicated to space.
In the private world, Elon Musk, for example, is very active with SpaceX. The market, in fact, will be the prerogative of the private users for 75% and the number of satellites in orbit will increase from the current 1500 to around 2000.
The pilot of the Italian Air Force and Astronaut Roberto Vittori said, "today we mean as Space Economy an important series of activities, which however are made from the Earth for space, but the true meaning regards what will be done in space, on the Moon or Mars or on asteroids, to extract minerals or implant manufacturing industries , launch bases and more".
The value of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, of metals and rare stones, is estimated, in fact, in quintillion dollars, 30 zero after the first digit.