18 March 2016
President of ISA Against Avio Takeover
On March 17, president of the Italian Space agency spoke out against a French industrial takeover of Italy's Avio, the primary contractor for the Vega small-satellite launcher. In a statement posted on the agency’s website, Roberto Battiston said ...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...’, ‘industry and innovation’ and ‘international partnerships’. Since then a Letter of Intent has been signed with the Italian Space Agency to promote collaboration among companies and research organisations, and dialogue established with the...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
...the astronauts. When the results of my first projects that the Italian Space Agency selected, in response to the first call for the Technological Utilisation of the Space Station, convinced the ASI’s scientific community to include in their protocols...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
... Mission Directorate as a project of the NASA’s Explorers Program. IXPE is an international collaboration between NASA, the Italian Space Agency, along with partners and providers in 12 other countries. Marshall built the three X-ray telescopes. The...
10 May 2016
'Big Data' issues to be discussed at GLIS 2016
... the benefits of big data for the human society. Among others will be present Prof. Roberto Battiston, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President, Dr. Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s Head of Program and Planning and Dr. Ingo Baumann, Lawyer/Partner at BHO...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
.... Joining DART on its mission will be a small spacecraft known as the LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids). Contributed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the shoebox-sized passenger will separate from DART several days before...
