Italy and Qascom to Land First GNSS Receiver on the Moon
A 2023 lander in the moon’s Mare Crisium will carry the first GNSS receiver to that planet’s surface: the Navigation Early Investigation on Lunar surface (NEIL) receiver with software-defined radio (SDR) technology. The receiver will spring from agreements between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Italian Space Agen...
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Italian aerospace engineer Marcello Gori on his research about ocean worlds at NASA
Liquid water is a necessary condition to sustain life as we know it. This very simple concept, inspired by observing life on our planet, has led scientists from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (commonly known as JPL) to explore the so-called “Ocean Worlds.” Ocean Worlds are bodies in our Solar System where large amounts of liquid water are expected...
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Joint statement of intent for cooperation in the Artemis program by the Government of the Italian Republic and the Government of the United States of America
The United States and Italy have a long history of successful cooperation in science and exploration of outer space for peaceful uses. This history is a result of the strong relationship between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). In this spirit of continued collaboration, the Signatorie...
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Cinzia Zuffada (President of ISSNAF)
Here at We the Italians we’ve been thinking that science and research are two fundamental and very delicate aspects of our lives way before the covid-19 virus hit the whole world: here at We the Italians we believe that science and research are extremely serious and complicated things, that require studies, talent and sweat, and we are therefore gr...
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UM astrophysicist to be part of team sending NASA mission to the moon
Physics Professor Massimiliano Galeazzi is no stranger when it comes to working with scientists and astrophysicists at NASA. Back in 2018, he participated in the Poker Flat Sounding Rocket Campaign with NASA and other academic institutions to launch three rockets into outer space from a site in Alaska. For that mission, Galeazzi was the principal i...
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L’Italia sulla Luna. L’intesa tra Asi e Nasa per salire a bordo di Artemis
L’Italia sale a bordo di Artemis, il programma con cui gli Stati Uniti vogliono tornare sulla Luna entro il 2024. Ieri sera, a Washington, a margine dell’International Astronautical Congress (Iac) che ogni anno riunisce la comunità spaziale di tutto il mondo, il presidente dell’Agenzia spaziale italiana (Asi) Giorgio Saccoccia ha siglato l’intesa c...
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An Hour in Space with Italians at NASA
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to a workshop: An Hour in Space with Italians at NASA. Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 6:00 PM. Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW. Washington, DC 20008. Doors open at 5:30 PM. MORE INFO & RSVP Join us for an exciting one-hour space mission with our panelists: Veronic...
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Renato Cantore (Author of the book "Dalla Terra alla Luna")
On September 12, 1962, in Houston, in Texas, the State where he would be killed just over a year later, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy made a historic speech, in which he announced the race to the Moon. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," JFK said. When you...
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Rocco Petrone, storia di un mito
«Nessuno potrà mai dire abbastanza bene di Rocco Petrone. Non saremmo mai arrivati sulla Luna in tempo o, forse, non ci saremmo mai arrivati senza Rocco». Con queste poche parole Isom “Ike” Rigell, ingegnere capo del Kennedy Space Center e addetto alle operazioni di lancio, restituisce tutto il peso di una figura rimasta a lungo in ombra, ma che ha...
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