by Andrea Cascia Nowadays we don't talk about anything else: "electric". The applications in this field are endless and to date it is the only possible alternative to traditional energy sources. So we are talking about renewables, i.e. energy sources which, unlike coal, oil, natural gas, uranium and plutonium, can be used almost infinitely. So, […]
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Leonardo will supply the high-resolution optical chamber for PLATiNO 3 and the hyperspectral instrument for PLATiNO 4. The payloads will support the monitoring of the territory, natural resources and the atmosphere, for a more sustainable and secure management of the environment. Leonardo's tools are the technological heart of the next PLATiNO missions, a fundamental element of the technological roadmap [...]
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Primary and lower secondary school classes can participate. Proposals until February 28 A competition open to students to decide the name of the future Italian satellite constellation: it is the contest launched today by the Department for Digital Transformation with the Ministry of Education and the Italian Space Agency, entitled [...]
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(by Vito Coviello, AIDR Member and Head of the Digital Technologies Observatory in the Transport and Logistics Sector) In the distant 30s of the last century, the 32nd President of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, delivered this sentence: “A nation that destroys its own soil destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, they purify the air [...]
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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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The first images from the satellite of the Italian Space Agency presented to the public. Captured by the hyperspectral sensor, they were received in Matera and processed by a team of engineers and scientists. The first results of the mission confirm the capability of PRISMA and the effectiveness of its hyperspectral sensor. Le Bourget (Paris), 18 June 2019. Transparency of water, state [...]
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