The Italian Space Agency (ASI), established in 1988, is a government agency responsible for funding, regulating, and coordinating space exploration activities in Italy. ASI plays a key role in defining national strategies in the space sector, promoting Italian participation in European projects, and fostering international collaborations with entities like NASA and ESA. It oversees the National Aerospace Plan and manages facilities like the Broglio Space Centre. ASI is also involved in Earth observation programs, space propulsion research (leading the VEGA rocket program), and satellite communication developments.
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Arianespace secured a contract to launch two small Earth science satellites for the Italian Space Agency on Vega launches between 2022 and 2024.
A Falcon 9 launch carrying a Cosmo-Skymed Second Generation radar imaging satellite for the Italian space agency ASI was expected in late January 2022.
e-GEOS is owned 80% by Telespazio and 20% by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
e-GEOS is owned 20% by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and 80% by Telespazio.
The joint constellation includes five COSMO-SkyMed and COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation dual-use SAR satellites owned by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence.
e-GEOS is a company formed by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%).
e-GEOS is owned 80% by Telespazio and 20% by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
e-GEOS is a company formed by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%).
On 2021-02-03, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the Italian space agency ASI signed a statement of intent to cooperate on the International Mars Ice Mapper mission.
Thales Alenia Space manufactured the 2.2-metric-ton Cosmo-SkyMed satellite for the Italian Space Agency.
Avio and an independent inquiry board with ESA, the French space agency, and the Italian space agency traced Vega’s 2019-07-15 failure to the Zefiro-23 second stage.
The Italian Air Force plans to work with the Italian space agency ASI, the research organization CNR, and universities on the research payloads for the flight.
Thales Alenia Space received an order in July 2019 to build the defense-focused Ital-GovSatCom satellite under contract from the Italian Space Agency.
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) launched an initiative to create national "mirror programs" that provide supplemental spacecraft to European Commission-led programs such as Galileo, Govsatcom, and Copernicus.
Arianespace had planned four Vega launches for the year, with the first Vega launch occurring on 2019-03-21 carrying the Italian Space Agency’s PRISMA satellite.
The Italian Space Agency launched the first Lares satellite on the maiden flight of Vega in 2012.
The Italian Space Agency decided years earlier to launch the science satellite Lares-2 on the first Vega C flight.
Avio has four Vega launches planned in 2019: the Italian Space Agency’s PRISMA satellite, the ESA-supported SSMS adaptor proof-of-concept flight, and the launches of the United Arab Emirates’ Falcon Eye 1 and Falcon Eye 2 satellites.
The first Vega launch in 2019 is scheduled for 2019-03-14 carrying the Italian Space Agency’s PRISMA Earth observation satellite.
The Italian Space Agency’s Prisma satellite was planned for a 2018 launch but was delayed to 2019 due to delays with ESA’s Aeolus wind-mapping satellite.