by Editorial Staff Villadei: "We will carry out our work while always remaining perfectly integrated with the other astronauts who are already on the ISS, so as to be ready to face any unexpected event together." On January 17, at 23 pm Italian time, the Falcon 11 rocket from SpaceX, Elon Musk's company, will take flight launching towards [...]
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Adolfo Urso, fresh from his mandate on space, took part in the ESA ministerial meeting in Paris last Tuesday together with the representatives of the European governments to shore up the strategies and investment programs for aerospace policies for the next three years. A new challenge, space, is attracting the countries that more than the others are investing resources and […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) It seems to be witnessing a football derby, but it is not so because the interests are certainly greater with effects on the economies of the competing countries. Italy and France are trying to position themselves within the European Union as new leading players given that Germany, after the Merkel era, begins to show faint signs of […]
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Leonardo, Telespazio and e-GEOS sign agreement with ESA's Φ-lab The collaboration between Leonardo, Telespazio (joint venture Leonardo 67%, Thales 33%) and e-GEOS (joint venture Telespazio 80%, Italian Space Agency 20%) is underway ) and Φ-lab, the research center of the European Space Agency (ESA) dedicated to the study of new technologies to accelerate research on the observation of [...]
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Everything is ready for the launch of the ESA on the agenda on 13 July at 13,13 Italian time. A lot of Italy in the mission that also brings the Lares 2 of the ASI into orbit. Everything is ready for the inaugural launch of ESA's new European Vega C (Consolidation) launcher whose flight VV21 is currently scheduled for July 13th at 08,13 (local time), from the base [...]
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Leonardo has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to design, develop, build, validate and operate, under the technical responsibility of the ESA Security Office, the new Cyber-Security Operations Center (C-SOC) of the Agency . This is a key infrastructure for Europe, which will be operational from 2024 with the aim of protecting European space resources from cyber threats and [...]
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A synergy between the Ministry of Education and the European Space Agency (ESA) to use space and satellite technologies in favor of innovation and digitization in schools. In the interest of female students and all the protagonists of the world of education, to support inclusion, integration, dialogue between cultures. With this objective, the Ministry and ESA launched the joint initiative "Space-based [...]
read moreRoma Capitale and Leonardo present an experimental project using satellites, drones, sensors, Artificial Intelligence and 5G, with a view to sustainability and environmental protection Enhancing safety and protecting the environmental heritage of the Castel Fusano pine forest - a protected area of about 1.000 hectares within the Roman Littoral State Nature Reserve - with the use [...]
read moreArianeGroup has just signed several agreements with Airbus Defense and Space for the adaptation and construction of the third European Service Module (ESM) flight model for the Orion spacecraft. ArianeGroup will provide integration and testing services for the propulsion subsystem, as well as for some parts of the thermal subsystem and for the corresponding electronic subsystems. [...]
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On the occasion of the fifty-one anniversary of the landing of man on the moon, the Ministry of Education hosted on its social channels a video of the ESA astronaut, the European Space Agency, Luca Parmitano who is also a pilot officer of the Air Force . "July 20 is a particularly important date for me: a year ago I was sitting inside my [...]
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Leonardo: contract signed with ESA for the construction of PROSPECT, the drill and the scientific laboratory to discover the secrets of the Moon Leonardo has signed a € 31,5 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the construction of PROSPECT, the drill and the mini-laboratory for Luna-27, a mission of ESA and Roscosmos, with [...]
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The Space 19+ ministerial conference, organized by ESA - European Space Agency - last November in Seville highlighted the need to start gradually increasing the budget for the 22 member countries. The desired increase is expected to reach approximately 45%, equal to 14,4 billion euros over the next three years. An effort, writes the Sole24Ore, which [...]
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NASA will purchase seats to transport commercial missions organized to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024. In early 2020, NASA is expected to issue a tender for any suppliers interested in providing the service but likely competitors to provide it should be the two companies that NASA has already hired for [...]
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Food for astronauts, the topic was dealt with by ilfattoalimentare.it. Food in space was extensively narrated at the Technology Festival which was held in Turin from 7 to 10 November. The food our astronauts are used to today is totally different from that used in the past: it is getting closer [...]
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China last Thursday successfully completed a crucial landing test in northern Hebei province ahead of a historic unmanned exploration mission to Mars next year. China is on track to launch its mission to Mars, said Zhang Kejian, head of China National Space on Thursday [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Let's go, "Let's go", so yesterday at 18.28 yesterday the colonel of the Air Force and ESA astronaut, Luca #Parmitano communicated to colleagues Aleksandr Skvortsov and Andrew "Drew" Morgan, the beginning of the mission. The Soyuz rocket took off towards space, starting the #Beyond mission of the European Space Agency which for six months will hold in [...]
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The satellite of the Italian Space Agency will study the earth using a hyperspectral optical sensor, which can open up new scenarios for the control of the environmental processes of our planet The launch of the mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) PRISMA (HyperSpectral Precursor of the Mission) is approaching Application). The satellite will be launched from the European space base of Kourou in Guyana [...]
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The asteroid Bennu and missions directed to Mercury and intended to study the Sun, the completion of the European GPS and the launch of new sentinels of the planet, these are the challenges for 2018. The asteroid Bennu should be reached in August by the NASA probe Osiris-Rex, destined to bring a sample back to Earth in 2023. The [...]
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The Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, pilot officer of the Italian Air Force, the first Italian to inhabit the ISS, beating the European record of 199 days in space, joined 16 Chinese 'taikonauts' for training nine-day survival at sea off the coastal city of Yantai, China. [...]
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