The industrial revolution and new commercial outlets will come directly from space. There Space Economy it is no longer a dogma but a reality that very soon will probably become the only commercial outlet for the most industrialized countries, able to compete in the world of high technology.
Italy boasts a record in history: it is the third country to have launched a satellite, the San Marco from the Malindi base in the 60s, thanks to Broglio and today it is the sixth space power in the world together with the USA, India, China , Japan and Russia.
As regards the construction of satellites, technologies and robots for earth observation, safety and exploration of the Solar System, Italy is a leader thanks to Thales Alenia Space Italy and its subsidiary together with the Italian Space Agency, ASI, Altee, while for the launch into orbit there is #Avio with his pitcher #Vega.
A Telespazio instead the downstream sector, ie the management of satellites and ground services, and the collection and distribution of data thanks to its subsidiary E-Geos.
A Thales Alenia Space and its subsidiary Altee have been entrusted with one of the most important missions of the European Space Agency: EXOMARS 2020, which will go in search of life on Mars. The rover that will study the subsoil of the red planet, Rosalind Franklin, has just come out of the Thales Alenia Space Italia plants in Turin with all its loads of very high technologies. The mission control center - the ROCC (Rover Operation Control Center) - is instead located in the headquarters of Altee, also in Turin, which provides engineering and logistics services to support space operations. Including the International Space Station, built at 50 percent by Thales Alenia Space Italia, which also supplies refueling modules Cygnus. At the Rome facilities, instead, the task of building satellites for earth observation and land safety: the fleet of Copernicus Sentinels, European Union program, e CosmoSkymed, Italian satellites for dual, civil and military use, as well as navigation satellites Galileo. The small but reliable Vega - which boasts 94 per cent of success - places our country among the only 6 in the world capable of sending satellites into space together with the United States, Russia, China, Japan and India.
Donato Amoroso, CEO of Thales Alenia Space in Italy
"The industrial policy of support to the new sectors of the sector capable of bringing together priorities and competences, which are the absolute value with which we compare ourselves in the national and international market. A market increasingly hungry for space, now closely linked to the well-being of the earth. From security to territorial monitoring, from communications to the Internet of things (Iot) to smart cities, sooner or later everyone has to pass through space. For this reason, the Space Economy is an attraction of capital because many nations that until yesterday did not have space as an element of strategic importance have now put it at the center, seeing in space an engine for development and for the future. And we, by leading the way, can become multipliers for the economy".
Giulio Ranzo, CEO of Avio
"What is funny about the definition is that the 'Space' is a means to make 'the Economy' grow: the value of a single space industry is insignificant compared to what space technology moves in every sector of the economy, from services to industry, from defense to agriculture".
Luigi Pasquali, managing director of Telespazio and head of the Spazio line of Leonardo
"At a certain point, the space sector has moved from technology push, that is, from the sole search for new technologies to market driven, and therefore to market pull, that is, according to market needs. The technologies had reached such a high level that they realized that they could also respond to some market demands, to the new needs of users. The paradigm has therefore changed: the market has produced new needs to which space systems can now respond. Italy's strength lies in its "end to end" competences, that is, on the entire supply chain".