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...
09 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...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
...a plastic 3D printer on the ISS today and the Italian Space Agency has just launched its own plastic printer prototype as a ... and time consuming non-destructive inspections. The Italian Space Agency has just launched its own plastic printer prototype...
05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
... only instrument busy working away, as the spacecraft’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JI-RAM), supplied by the Italian Space Agency, has also sent back an unprecedented view of Jupiter’s southern aurora captured in infrared at wavelengths ranging...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
...at an altitude of 700 kilometres. Also hitching a ride on the Soyuz-Fregat launcher will be the first satellite of the Italian space agency ASI’s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation constellation, along with three ‘CubeSats’, including ESA’s OPS-SAT – the...
