Italy is taking impressive strides toward extracting oxygen from lunar soil, thanks to a pioneering initiative by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian company OHB Italia. On June 28, 2025, they finalized a contract to create "ORACLE" (Oxygen Retrieval Asset for Carbothermal Lunar Extraction): a compact device intended to harvest breathable oxyg...

La Lega Serie A annuncia una partnership con La National Italian American Foundation Bon Jovi e la disputa con il sindaco di Jersey Shore riguardo a un ristorante per i poveri In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY annuncia le sedi e il programma delle performance per il Festival 2025, dal 5/5 al 19/5 Il Made in Italy nel settore aerospaziale prend...

A sector that is growing in both business volume and its foothold in the U.S. market, with an increasingly significant presence at the major global aerospace events. Italian is widely spoken in Colorado during the days of the Space Symposium, the main meeting point for the global space community. The event brings together over 10,000 professionals,...

Italy’s aerospace leaders are capturing attention in the U.S., driving forward a pivotal quarter of strategic growth in the global space tech arena. Following successful engagements at SpaceCom in Orlando and ASCENDxTexas in League City, the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are now leading Italy’s national delegation at...

An Italian-made instrument on the Moon has received signals from the Earth for the first time, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) said Monday. For the first time, ASI said, signals from navigation satellites active in Earth's orbit have been received on the Moon. The result, as stated on the ASI website, "is due to the LuGre satellite receiver, the res...

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In the future, it will be possible to grow vegetables in space, even in the dark: scientists have identified the molecular mechanism that allows certain plants to grow independently of light, which was previously considered essential for proper development.   The discovery, published in Plant Communications, is the result of work by an intern...

The heart of NASA's future space station as a transit post to take astronauts back to the Moon has been made in Italy. The pressurized module HALO (Habitation And Logistics Outpost) was built in the Thales Alenia Space (Thales - Leonardo) factory in Turin. The module is ready to leave for the United States at the end of March where the company Nort...

Italian aerospace industry leaders are engaging with major players from North America and beyond. From Florida to Colorado, passing through Texas and Washington, the recent SpaceCom in Orlando—one of the world's top commercial space trade fairs—marked the beginning of a quarter packed with key events. More than 50 top Italian space tech companies w...

As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration. A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments is the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), a joint effort between NASA and the Itali...