October  2 - 6  2023 – The Italian Space Agency (ASI) will participate in the congress

02 October 2023

The 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the most important annual space event in the world, opened in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on Monday, October 2nd. This event gets together leading actors from across the aerospace industry, joined by a large crowd of world expert specialists in the field of space and space enthusiasts to attend several thematic conferences and meetings that are scheduled to take place until October 6.

IAC 2023 Baku will pass the baton to IAC 2024 Milan for the next European edition. The event, the 75th congress since its inception, will be organized, as is customary, by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and hosted by the Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIDAA), the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Leonardo company. The IAC 2024 Milan will mark the 5th time that the Congress will be celebrated in Italy. Milan will be the world’s space capital for a week after Rome in 1956 and 1981, Turin in 1997 and Naples in 2012. We’ll see you all in Milan from October 14 to 18, 2024.

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