October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... cemented Cassini’s legacy as one of the most successful planetary missions of all time. The joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission launched the careers of hundreds of scientists (myself included), and enthralled millions across the globe. On 15 September...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... of UNOOSA since 2014 and was previously Head of the European Space Policy Observatory at Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in Brussels. She also served as Director of Human Spaceflight of the European Space Agency from 2008 to 2011, and...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... Technological Utilisation of the Space Station, convinced the ASI’s scientific community to include in their protocols, alongside safety... well-being and facilitate missions in space, collaborating with ASI, ESA, and NASA and a variety of companies in...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
...CubeSat riding with DART and provided by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), will be released prior to DART’s impact to capture images... Washington. “This international collaboration involves DART, ASI’s LICIACube, and ESA’s Hera investigations and science...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... needed to drive the NEXT-C ion engine. DART will also carry a CubeSat contributed by Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), named LICIACube - Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. The DART spacecraft will deploy LICIACube roughly...
05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
... view of Jupiter's souther aurora, as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on August 27, 2016. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM Due to Earth’s position in respect to Jupiter's south pole, the gas giant’s southern aurora can...
