Artemis 1: ArgoMoon captured photos of the Earth and Moon ‣
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, carrying ArgoMoon, the satellite of the Italian Space Agency, developed and operated by Argotec, took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre on 16 November 2022
The COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation satellite simultaneously acquires images over areas hundreds of kilometres apart ‣
A unique innovation becomes a reality available to Users
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 […]
Welcome back home, Samantha Cristoforetti ‣
The astronaut attended a press conference from the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne
Cheops is ready for hunting ‣
The scientific operations of the space mission Cheops officially started. The mission, with an important Italian participation, explores the Universe to give us an in-depth look at new worlds
The last images captured by the LICIACube satellite have been presented during the NASA press conference on the last updates on the DART mission ‣
Watch the replay of the press conference on ASITV
The second COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) satellite becomes operational and strengthens even more the established role and contribution of Italy in the field of Earth observation ‣
After successfully passing the test and in-flight qualification stage, the data acquired by the CSG2 satellite are made available to users by the Italian Space Agency and Ministry of Defence
Salty water at the base of Martian polar deposits, successfully confirmed ‣
The third study was published in Nature Communications by an Italian-US team
LICIACube: press conference with the first images of the probe’s impact with the asteroid, captured by the Italian satellite ‣
The images captured by the Luke and Leia cameras have been released
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