New success for the European Vega carrier ‣
Launched from the space centre in Kourou, French Guyana, it released into orbit 53 small satellites belonging to 21 different companies from 13 different countries.
PLATiNO Programme: signed the long term agreement ‣
In the presence of Hon. Riccardo Fraccaro, Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Italian Council of Ministers, of Giorgio Saccoccia, President of Italian Space Agency (ASI), and of Vito Pertosa, founder of Angel […]
The Prisma Mission opens to the community ‣
Now that the commissioning phase and the calibration/validation activities have been completed PRISMA is finally ready to open the mission exploitation by the user community.
The Earth’s tides move the continents ‣
Astronomical forces such as solid Earth’s tides play an active role on plate tectonics: this is the results of a research conducted by the Sapienza University of Rome, the Italian […]
Cira, when research becomes business ‣
A meeting was held at CIRA between a delegation of the Italian government and the president of the ASI
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THURSDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2023
KENYA DELEGATION VISITS ITALY ‣
The official visit to Italy was promoted and organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Italy on the occasion of the first meeting of the Joint Council of Ministers MORE...
FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2023
CALIGOLA, the first 3-wavelength Raman LIDAR mission for the study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean-Earth-Atmosphere system ‣
On 26 and 27 October 2023, the first in-person meeting between ASI and NASA on the CALIGOLA mission took place at the ASI headquarters in Rome MORE...
FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2023
PRISMA observes the Kennedy Space Center ‣
The NASA site seen by the ASI hyperspectral satellite MORE...
WEDNESDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2023
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN ITALY AND SOUTH KOREA ON COOPERATION IN THE USE OF OUTER SPACE FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES ‣
Teodoro Valente, President of the Italian Space Agency, and Lee Jong-ho, Minister of Science and ICT of South Korea, signed a MoU in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella and the President of the Republic of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeo MORE...