Yesterday as part of the second edition of the Mediterranean Aerospace Matching (MAM24) business convention held in Grottaglie (TA) from 20 to 22 March, promoted by the Aerospace Technological District (DTA) by the Puglia Region, ENAC, Puglia Airports and Criptaliae Spaceport , a demonstration medical transport mission with drones took place, which allowed a rapid delivery of goods of […]
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by Editorial Staff The experience of the Country System in the Ax-3 Voluntas mission, led by the Air Force, the opportunities for economic growth in the sector are the themes at the center of the event held yesterday in Milan, at the PwC Tower, entitled "Human flight space: opportunities for Italian companies in the New Space economy". The Hon. Andrea Mascaretti, President of the intergroup […]
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by Editorial Staff "Cybersecurity in the era of AI" is the title of the 3rd edition of CyberSec, the international conference promoted and organized by the newspaper Cybersecurity Italia. The conference which will take place in Rome on 6 and 7 March 2024, through the contribution of national and international cyber security experts, intends to provide important insights into the evolutions [...]
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The attention these days is entirely focused on the feared Russian war capabilities in a space environment. Hypersonic missiles, nuclear-powered satellites equipped with electronic weapons are considered concrete threats to the security of states due to the damage they could cause to Western satellites dedicated to providing essential services such as those in the field of telecommunications and [...]
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by Francesco Matera The Head of the Intelligence Committee of the United States House, the Republican Mike Turner yesterday came out into the open, warning American politics and consequently the entire Western world that the Russian threat also and above all comes from space, identifying it as a " serious threat to national security." Turner also […]
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In the 18 days on board the International Space Station, Col. Walter Villadei carried out experimentation activities in microgravity, with positive repercussions for the entire country system. He returned shortly before 14pm (Italian time) today, with landing off the coast of Daytona (Florida), the SpaceX Dragon shuttle with the [...]
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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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by Editorial Staff Last November 29, during a press conference, the Italian company Apogeo Space announced the release of the first batch of nine nano-satellites (ten by ten centimeters, three thick), successfully launched with SpaceX, the 11 November. The satellites constitute the first private Italian constellation dedicated to telecommunications for the Internet of […]
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Among the major export markets for Leonardo: 100 helicopters, 45 ships with systems and artillery on board and aircraft for the national aerobatic team Al Fursan New frontiers of growth in Space and Cyber Security, starting from the recent collaboration with Khalifa University for the cyber security training in Abu Dhabi […]
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Russia's first lunar mission failed, the Luna-25 space probe went out of control and crashed on the Moon following a pre-landing orbit preparation problem. A failure that highlights the post-Soviet decline on a space program. The Russian state space agency, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact [...]
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The launch of a North Korean satellite has failed: the booster and the cargo crashed into the sea. South Korea's military has reportedly recovered parts of the launch vehicle from the high seas. The North Korean state news agency - KCNA - reported that the rocket for the launch of the spy satellite [...]
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The three international days dedicated to aerospace promoted by the Italian Air Force have officially begun at the "La Nuvola di Fuksas" congress center in Rome. The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, was present. The AeroSpace Power Conference, the international convention promoted by the Air Force to discuss developments [...]
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A large military airship has been found by satellites at a remote base in the desert of northwest China. With an airship, easily manoeuvrable, the question of the vulnerability of the balloons was resolved which, instead, remain in the air at the mercy of the winds and above all from the interception of the adversaries and the consequent shooting down, as happened with the Chinese balloons unearthed [...]
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Yesterday a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed for the assignment of an Italian liaison officer to the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM). The Air Brigadier General Davide Cipelletti, Chief of the General Space Office of the Defense General Staff (SMD), and General James Dickinson, Commander of the USSPACECOM signed the side agreement of the 38th [...]
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The Memorandum of Understanding will strengthen cooperation between the two players in various areas, with the possibility of developing integrated solutions in specific technological areas such as quantum cryptography, green transition and secure solutions for logistics and transport Leonardo, one of the main global players in the Aerospace Defense sector & Security, and Cisco Systems, the world leader in […]
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In recent days, the Defense Staff hosted a French delegation led by General of the Air Division Philippe Adam, Commander of the French CDE, or the component of the French Aerospace Armed Force dedicated to the management of the Space domain. The meeting further consolidates the cooperation activities already in place between the space sectors of the two nations, in full [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Space is increasingly sought after by the superpowers every day because it is considered essential for military operations, not only in the defensive phase, for the detection and tracking of missiles, but also in the offensive phase, for geolocation, navigation, identification of targets and detection/control of military activities in general. China, United States […]
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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 Francesco Matera) Last January, GPS images of Russian troops massing on the borders of Ukraine warned in advance of an imminent invasion. During wartime, satellite links kept frontline troops in touch with their commanders. Meanwhile, the GPS-guided Himar rocket launchers helped move [...]
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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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Yesterday, in the presence of the Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Cavo Dragone, delegated for the occasion by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, and the President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), ing. Giorgio Saccoccia, the signing of the Framework Agreement between the Ministry of Defense and ASI, concerning the collaboration in space activities, through the implementation of programs and [...]
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The United States tested a long-range nuclear-capable missile, a show of strength against China and Russia. The Air Force Global Strike Command launched the disarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) two days ago from the Californian base of the Vandenberg Space Force. He was headed for the Pacific. "Our triad [...]
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The hypersonic weapons used in the war in Ukraine, the use of killer drones and laser weapons require effective and very challenging responses that only superpowers can face due to their cost. Several scientific programs and some applications in the military industry have shown that to fight the wars of the present but above all of the [...]
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Samantha Cristoforetti, connected by the International Space Station, announced the winning name of the “Space for ideas” competition. The name of the future Italian satellite constellation for Earth Observation will be “Iris”. This was announced today, directly from the International Space Station, by the Italian astronaut of ESA - European Space Agency, Samantha Cristoforetti, on the occasion of the first inflight [...]
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The Biden Administration on April 18 announced a unilateral moratorium on anti-satellite missile tests, inviting other nations operating in space to follow the initiative. Vice President Kamala Harris announced a ban on conducting such tests for the United States, after tests conducted in recent years by Russia, China and India which have [...]
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NASA is preparing for an experimental mission with the aim of hitting an asteroid. The operation, unique of its kind, is called DART - Double Asteroid Redirection Test - and will use a space probe designed to crash into the flying celestial body at a speed of about 6,6 kilometers per hour. The first planetary defense mission at [...]
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The Unity23 mission will be carried out in 2022 following the completion of technical checks and aircraft upgrades for Virgin Galactic's suborbital flight As announced by Virgin Galactic, the "Unity 23" mission - the 23rd flight of the VSS Unity space plane - will be rescheduled in course of 2022, after the completion of a series [...]
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The Ministry of Defense has announced the approval of the Defense Multiannual Planning Document (DPP) for the three-year period 2021-2023. The DPP is an important programmatic reference used by the head of the Dicastery to illustrate to Parliament the expenditure forecasts for the next three years. Thus the minister, Lorenzo Guerini commented on the approval of the important document: "The Programs of [...]
read more“The success of the Operation, the first in the history of Defense, confirms Italy's great technical-scientific capabilities. Space is increasingly at the center of the geopolitical and economic confrontation between the major world powers and our country, thanks to a wide range of civil and military applications, can enjoy a strong technical and scientific positioning [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) Parts of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 am Beijing time (0224 GMT) and landed in a position with coordinates at 72,47 degrees east longitude and 2,65 degrees latitude north. The news was released by the Chinese state media according to a statement from China Manned Space [...]
read moreAfter more than 160 days in space, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule that detached from the ISS at 20:35 pm US East Coast time returned to Earth. The spacecraft landed successfully, supported by 4 parachutes, brought back the astronauts who had been on the International Space Station for six months. The aerospace company [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) The American intelligence community has recently drafted the Global Risk Assessment Report where it warns the government about Chinese initiative in the development of new military space programs, capable of targeting US and allied satellites. The report, drawn up by the Office of the National Director of Intelligence, highlights that the Chinese Defense would be seriously [...]
read moreThe asteroids that impact the Earth that generate shockwaves capable of destroying everything on the surface have inspired many science fiction films. Yet the remote possibility that one of our favorite movie stories can really materialize does not make scientists and researchers from all over the world sleep peacefully. With the paradigm to prevent [...]
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Agreement signed between the US and Italy for the next mission to the Moon. It was signed by NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and Riccardo Fraccaro, undersecretary of the Prime Minister with responsibility for aerospace policies. Scientists and the world of our local industry will collaborate on three strands. On the construction of the laboratory-house where the astronauts will live and on the development of [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) How much can private individuals contribute to national security? A good question but also a prospect that can be the turning point for those programs whose exorbitant costs can no longer be supported by governments. Especially with the ongoing economic crisis due to the CoViD-19 pandemic. If the most powerful country [...]
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China launched a new mission to Mars a few hours ago, more ambitious than the previous ones. The Long-5 rocket took off at 12:40 pm from Hainan Island, south of China. Hundreds followed the launch on the beach on the other side of the cabin. "This launch is hope, strength," said Li Dapeng, co-founder of [...]
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The "FORUM PA 2020 - Digital Resilience", an online event organized from 6 to 11 July, ended yesterday. The leitmotif of this year's edition was the health emergency due to Covid-19 which represented an unparalleled challenge also for the Public Administration which, in addition to assuming a central role in the management of the emergency itself [... ]
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Leonardo further consolidates its position in the Space Sector by increasing its stake in Avio Leonardo announces the conclusion of the operations aimed at the purchase of 988.475 Avio shares. Following the transactions, Leonardo's shareholding increased by 3,75% and is therefore equal to 29,63% of the company's share capital. The operations carried out on [...]
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(by Fabio Di Spigno) It finally happened, after a first postponement due to bad weather. After years of work, a new space race, a new era of space exploration, began almost without realizing it, at 21:22 and 42 seconds Italian time on May 30, 2020. In a historical moment in which the borders of nations [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Space Economy, since yesterday a new development opportunity for a sector that today is worth 300 billion in global turnover and is expected to increase by 5 or 10 times in the next 3 decades. Elon Musk's rocket, Crew Dragon started on May 30, 2020, at 21.22:XNUMX pm Italian time, [...]
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The US President, Donald Trump presented the Fiscal Year 2021, many innovations that affect new ambitious goals. A $ 4.800 billion budget, writes Il Sole 24Ore, with major cuts to social programs in favor of defense and border control. "A Budget for America's Future", this is the title of the maneuver, [...]
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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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Agreement between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic The first contract between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic for the purchase of a suborbital scientific research flight was signed today at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The flight will depart from the New Mexico Spaceport in the US in December 2020. To sign [...]
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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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When Summer #Worden realized that her ex-partner Anne #McClain had logged into her bank account, she must have been surprised, especially considering that the accused was on a mission aboard the International Space Station for six months. (ISS) The two women are facing a difficult divorce case, complicated by the custody of the [...]
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergej #Lavrov yesterday at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries that make up the #Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), who met in Rio de Janeiro, commented on the American policy in the field of defense and security, the interview was taken up by the #Tass news agency: "The development of plans [...]
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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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Macron announced that France will soon have a military command of space, as early as next September. The French president said this in a speech to the armed forces, broadcast live on Twitter by the Elysée, on the eve of the Republic Day on July 14. "To ensure the development and strengthening of our space capabilities [...]
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According to Reuters, NATO officials will designate space as a defense priority by the end of 2019. The decision formally recognizes the possibility of a war in space, in addition to existing conflicts that are already recognized in the air, on land, on the seas and in cyberspace. According to Reuters, the decision is expected [...]
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Italy with the # Aeronautica Militare wants to launch micro satellites into space with the help of fighter aircraft. Let's talk about the # Aviolancio. The idea is to use #Typhoon fighters as 'launchers' to put satellites into orbit, at an altitude of about 250 kilometers, mainly intended for Earth observation, therefore for controlling the territory, both in terms of defense [... ]
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The collaboration is part of the support activities for the creation of the “New National Trust Network” of GNSS sensors. An executive agreement was signed in recent days by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, air squad general Alberto Rosso, and by the Extraordinary Commissioner of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Prof. Piero Benvenuti, an executive agreement aimed at adapting and [... ]
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China wants to legislate and regulate the production, flight testing and launching of commercial rockets. This was reported by Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the Chinese National Space Administration, during a speech at the China Aerospace Conference. The need is due to the fact that the commercial segment has become an important part of the Chinese space industry. In the days [...]
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The Undersecretary of Defense Angelo Tofalo spoke at the event, organized by the Air Force to systematize knowledge and technological projects The first national Workshop on Platforms was held today, Friday 5 April, in Rome, at the Aviator's House. Stratospheric, an event organized by the General Office for Space of the Air Force to start a discussion, together [...]
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US Defense officials have announced that they intend to test the first space weapon in 2023. The reason is to give greater impetus to the study of various types of space weapons. They therefore asked for an additional 304 million dollars in the 2020 budget to develop new beam weapons, more powerful lasers and [...]
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China's Xinhua news agency, a Moscow official reported, reports that Russia will take reciprocal and asymmetrical measures in response to possible US threats to use outer space for military purposes. According to the Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, the intentions of the United States [...]
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The Council of Ministers approved ten bills to ratify and execute nine international agreements and an exchange of notes relating to international cooperation in space, defense, military and technical matters. This was announced by a press release from the Council of Ministers. As Nova reports, among the most significant are an agreement with [...]
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The era of tourism among the stars has begun. On Thursday evening, the space plane SpaceShip82, christened “VSS Unity” of Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's company, went into space at 3 kilometers of altitude, 2 times beyond the sound barrier. After seven "space tourists" had obtained in recent years the opportunity to [...]
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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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French Defense Minister Florence Parla said the 21st century space race is becoming dangerous and that will involve an unprecedented large investment program to protect national critical infrastructure from potential attackers. Paris officials suspect that Russia was trying to intercept secret communications when it [...]
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Russia attempted to intercept broadcasts from a Franco-Italian satellite used by the armed forces of both nations for secure communications, French Defense Minister Florence Parly said, describing the move as an "act of espionage." In a speech outlining French space policy for the next few years, Parly [...]
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A Pentagon report reports that the Chinese military has stepped up their bombing training against the United States and its allies. The assessment, which comes when relations between China and the US are very tense, was contained in an annual report that underlines China's efforts to increase its [...]
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US President Donald Trump wants a new military "space force", but Congress still disagrees. The Senate and the House have met to authorize the defense to spend $ 716 billion, funding necessary to lay the foundations for a sixth armed force dedicated to space. This is the [...]
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America should create its own separate military space force, President Donald Trump said yesterday, saying it would change the course of US space policy. President Trump's statement has raised many rumors and many have said that a military space force could make it more difficult to maintain orbit [...]
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Sunday's People's Liberation Army (PLA) newspaper ran an article by Liu Qianting, daughter of astronaut Liu Boming, about her father's flight to Shenzhou-7. Liu Boming, Zhai Zhigang, and Jing Haipeng took part in the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008, during which Zhai took the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut. [...]
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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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It looks like a galactic snake, the sinuous jet of plasma and energy that comes out of a black hole in the heart of a galaxy 8 billion light years away: its particular structure, helical and inhomogeneous, would be at the origin of the extraordinary luminosity recorded at the end of 2016 with a record high that left [...]
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Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos left the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz capsule at 3.17 am today (local time, 23.17 pm Italian yesterday) bound for the International Space Station where AstroPaolo and his crewmates await them. [...]
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The Cassini probe has never been so close to 'its' planet: it reached Saturn 13 years ago and is now ready to dive into the yellowish atmosphere of the planet of the rings. It will be a very rapid descent, whose start is expected just before 14,00 Italian on September 15th. Everything will last a few minutes, but [...]
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The 11th International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine - (ICASM 14) will take place in Rome, from 2017 to 65 September 65, with the participation of more than 2017 scientists and experts in the sector. aero-medical from over 400 countries. The global aero-medical community will discuss both the [...]
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In recent days, apparently extraordinary news has been bouncing around in newspapers and websites around the world: radio signals from space have been detected with characteristics never seen before. These emissions were identified as part of the "Breakthrough Listen Project", an initiative born in January 2016, aimed at finding evidence of life [...]
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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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Leonardo announces that the OPTSAT-3000 satellite of the Italian Ministry of Defense is ready for launch, scheduled for Wednesday 2 August at 3.58 Italian time from the European spaceport of Kourou, in French Guiana. Consisting of a heliosynchronous satellite in orbit LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and an earth segment for in-orbit control, acquisition and processing [...]
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