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...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...States. Furthermore, Mars Society Kenya will create a ‘Space City’, an educational campus for advancing domestic education on space-related issues (see Fig. 6) in cooperation with the Italian Space Agency, the University of Nairobi and the University...
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...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
...an impact hazard to Earth, should one ever be discovered. LICIACube, a CubeSat riding with DART and provided by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), will be released prior to DART’s impact to capture images of the impact and the resulting cloud of ejected...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
...to use technologies that have already been tried and tested in space, and driving several aspects of the satellite design. “Both....” Cheops shared the ride into space with the Italian space agency ASI’s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation satellite, which...
