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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TUESDAY 28 APRIL 2026

Centro Nazionale Competenze GNSS – Successfully concluded the second edition of the School on GNSS Technologies ‣

The second edition of the course, promoted by ASI and held at its Centre within Telespazio, concludes with strong international participation MORE...

MONDAY 30 MARCH 2026

IRIDE continues its development: eight more Eaglet II satellites in orbit ‣

European Space Agency (ESA), Italian Space Agency (ASI) and OHB Italia: The programme of the Italian Government marks another success  MORE...

THURSDAY 22 JANUARY 2026

First parabolic flight testing for the next smart biosuit for astronauts EMSi_MK.02 ‣

Le prove della tuta durante il volo parabolico

The EMSi-MK.02 wearable device will act as a countermeasure to the negative effects of microgravity on the astronaut’s Musculo-skeletal system MORE...

MONDAY 19 JANUARY 2026

FIRST LOOK AT EARTH FROM THE COSMO-SKYMED FM3 SATELLITE ‣

Roma - La città eterna vista dal nuovo satellite COSMO-SkyMed di seconda generazione. Nell’immagine si individuano immediatamente la basilica di San Pietro, il Colosseo, le Stazioni di Termini e Tiburtina, Villa Borghese e Villa Ada e lo Stadio Olimpico

Just days after launch, the first images are received from the third satellite of the second generation of the Earth Observation programme promoted by the Italian Space Agency and the Ministry of Defence, involving national industry with Leonardo, Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio and e-GEO MORE...

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...