An adventure started over 500 years ago, in which Italy played and still plays a leading role 

From Galileo’s telescope to the conquer of space with the launch, in 1957, of the Sputnik, the first man-made object to reach Earth orbit. In the following decades, the launch into space of probes and satellites allowed to explore our planetary system up to its extreme borders and to study deep space as telescopes from Earth would have never been able to do.

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From Mercury, Mars and Jupiter to asteroids and exoplanets

The study of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe

The study of the primordial Universe and gravitation laws

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FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2025

CIRA’s DFAN System Becomes Fully Operational ‣

Developed through the funding of Italian Space Agency within the PNRR Space Factory 4.0 MORE...

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2025

e-GEOS and Italian Space Agency welcome Japanese Ambassador Suzuki Satoshi to the Matera Space Centre ‣

Lorenzo Chessa, Direttore Sicurezza, Sistemi Informatici e Digitalizzazione, Antonio Nicoletti, Sindaco di Matera, Milena Lerario Ceo e-geos, Cristina Favilli, Prefetto di Matera e Michele Busciolano, Regione Basilicata

The delegation visited the e-GEOS Space Centre and the Italian Space Agency's “Giuseppe Colombo” Space Geodesy Centre MORE...

WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2025

Manila, 7th International Space Forum at Ministerial level – The Southeast Asia Chapter ‣

Fostering Regional Synergy in Space for Shared Challenges and Sustainable Development MORE...

THURSDAY 02 OCTOBER 2025

Italian Space Agency and Bahrain Space Agency sign a Memorandum of Understanding ‣

The Memorandum was signed during the 76th edition of the International Astronautical Congress
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TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2025

Selfies from space: Aussie nanosatellite completes first phase of mission ‣

Spirit nano satellite

SpIRIT is Led by the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency MORE...