Both Italy and the ASI have been playing for some time a prestigious and recognized within the international extra-UE space community, as they have established cooperation relationships and activities with several national space agencies – regulated by partnership agreements, which have been renewed and widened during the years.

Together with the ESA, the United States remain the international partner with whom privileged relationships have been established, by diversifying the partnership topics in time. There is a solid tradition of bilateral agreements with the NASA, the American space agency, which was established already in the 60’s. Furthermore, in 2016, the Italian Parliament ratified the agreement between the government of the United States and the Italian government on the peaceful uses of outer space, an agreement which had already been signed at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, in 2013.

But important relationships and agreements were concluded in time with other national agencies of great international importance and with the governments from different countries, such as: Roscosmos (Russian Federation), JAXA (Japan), CONAE (Argentina), ISA (Israel), Kenya (for the “Luigi Broglio” space station in Malindi), ISRO (India), CNSA, CAS and CMSA (China), EAU (United Arab Emirates), CSA (Canada), BSA (Brazil), AMS (Mexico), KARI (Korea), GISDTA (Thailand).

The complex legal and diplomatic architecture of bilateral and multilateral, inter-governmental and inter-institutional partnerships that preside over the project of the International Space Station (ISS), where astronauts and experiments from different nationalities are cohabiting, is maybe the most extraordinary archetypal example of the effectiveness of such international relations. Even today, the ISS constitutes one of the privileged multilateral tables to talk and activate corridors of transversal activities, industrial and technological development. A sector where Italy maintains a leading role, due to both the human and scientific presence aboard and the manufacture of about 50% of the infrastructure.

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TUESDAY 30 AUGUST 2022

Release of the Executive Summary of the International Mars Ice Mapper Measurement Definition Team ‣

ASI, CSA, JAXA and NASA are very pleased to release the Executive Summary of the International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) Measurement Definition Team
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THURSDAY 28 JULY 2022

Send in your Hypergravity Experiment Ideas & Discuss it with ESA/OOSA ‣

Conduct your experiment at the Large Diameter Centrifuge Facility at ESTEC through the Access to Space for All-HyperGES  MORE...

FRIDAY 15 JULY 2022

IAC 2024: THE SIGNING IN MILAN KICK-STARTS THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EVENT ‣

Italy at the centre of the international debate on the use of Space to support sustainability: the agreement and contract to host the 75th edition of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in 2024 in the Lombard capital

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WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE 2022

NASA, Partner Agency Leaders to Talk to Space Station Astronauts ‣

On June 17 at  1:40 p.m NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Giorgio Saccoccia, and U.S. embassy leadership will speak with astronauts aboard the ISS MORE...

THURSDAY 28 APRIL 2022

Samantha Cristoforetti has arrived on the Space Station ‣

The hatch is opened: the Minerva mission kicks off. During her mission, the ESA astronaut will conduct several scientific experiments for the ASI

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