(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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Puglia is increasingly placed at the center of initiatives related to the development of the space economy. During 2019, Virgin and some aerospace companies planned two long-term programs in Grottaglie in Puglia with joint investments by the Virgin Group and Sitael: one with Virgin Orbit for launch activities [...]
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The industrial revolution and new commercial outlets will come directly from space. The Space Economy 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 [...]
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The review made by La Stampa on Roberto Battiston's latest book “Making space” (La nave di Teseo, 290 pages, 15 euros) is very interesting. Battiston, former president of the Italian Space Agency from 2014 to 2018, devoted a very interesting chapter to the "space economy". Today the space is worth $ 350 billion a year. 37 per cent of [...]
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Yesterday the President of the United States Donald Trump signed the SPD-4 directive for the establishment of a Space Force, under the command of the Air Force. In addition to the opportunities of the Space Economy, it is clear that space is the next frontier of the military sector, the next terrain in which the superpowers and others will express all [...]
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Luigi Broglio was an engineer officer of the Italian Air Force born in 1911 and died in 2001 who discovered an innovative method of structural calculation that had the advantage of greatly simplifying the calculations of variously stressed complex structures, later known as the Balanced Forces Method . Subsequently, the Balanced Forces Method allowed [...]
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