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European Space Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The European nations decided to have two different agencies, one concerned to develop a launch system ELDO (European Launch Development Organisation) and the precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) that was established on March 20, 1964 per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962. During the latter half of the 1980s European human space flights changed from being the exception to rather constituting a routine and therefore in 1990 the European Astronaut Centre that is situated in Cologne, Germany was established. In 1958, only months after the Sputnik shock, Eduardo Amaldi and Pierre Auger, two prominent members of the European scientific community at that time, met to discuss the foundation of a common European space agency. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Space_Agency   (4995 words)

Italian Space Agencies A governmental reorganization in 1988 established the Italian Space Agency (ASI, Agenzie Spaziale Italiana) under the Ministry of Universities and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST) and its Undersecretary of Space. The principal Italian corporation involved in space activities is Alenia Spazio which was formed in 1990 with the merger of Aeritalia and Selenia. Italian law requires that 15% of the ASI budget be expended for basic scientific research, but in recent years the interpretation of that mandate has led to serious internal governmental disputes. www.globalsecurity.org /space/world/italy/agency.htm   (1033 words)

International Space Station Science News McClendon served as the NASA Project Manager for the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency MPLM project. Hadfield represents the Canadian Space Agency (CSA); Guidoni is with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Lonchakov is associated with Rosaviakosmos. The STS-111 Space Shuttle mission is Leonardo's third trip to the Station and the fifth delivery by logistics modules that transport research equipment and other experiments to the Station. www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov /photosmplm.html   (724 words)

SPACE.com -- Italian Satellite Poised to Fall to Earth Any Moment It's operated by the Italian Space Agency, and the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace. Astrosociology is the study of astrosocial phenomena (social/cultural patterns related to space), a multidisciplinary field open to all scientists and engineers interested in "space and society" issues. The ISA had previously said as many as 40 fragments, some weighing up to 265 pounds (120 kilograms) could reach the surface. www.space.com /missionlaunches/bepposax_030429.html   (395 words)

Italian Space Agency Competition The Italian Space Agency's offices are currently spread around in various locations, though logistic and functional requirements demand their concentration in a single complex. The Italian Space Agency, a government agency, announces an European Competition in two stages to design its new headquarters in Rome. ASI is determined to complete the construction of the Agency's new headquarters promptly, therefore the design teams will also be evaluated for their organizational capacities in rapidly developing the final design and for their capacities in managing the entire construction phase. www.deathbyarch.com /html/italian_space_agency_competiti.html   (364 words)

European Node officially handed to NASA This construction was carried out under ESA responsibility and in the frame of an agreement delegating to the Italian Space Agency (ASI) the technical and programmatic management of the project. The ceremony was attended by Alan Thirkettle, Head of the Development-Department of ESA's Human Spaceflight Directorate, representatives from the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Japanese Space Agency (NASDA), NASA, and selected media organisations. Further highlighting this sense of close international relations was the presence of the Japanese Space Agency delegate who was at the ceremony to mark the arrival of the Japanese Kibo Laboratory at KSC, where it will undergo completion of its interface qualification programme prior to delivery to the ISS in 2006. www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-06/esa-eno062603.php   (592 words)

ESA - Human Spaceflight - International Space Station - First European Node for the International Space Station passed acceptance review Following post transportation inspection, the Italian Space Agency will formally hand over Node 2 to ESA who in turn will hand it over to NASA, which according to the terms of the barter agreement, will then become the final owner of this ISS element. This enabled Europe to take full advantage of the experience gained by Italian industry through the development of the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) and synergies between the MPLM, nodes 2 and 3, and the European Columbus Laboratory module, which all use the same structural concept, developed by Alenia Spazio for all these contracts. Under these arrangements ESA entrusted ASI with responsibility for management, development and manufacture of the two nodes, which are being built under the prime contractorship of Alenia Spazio in Turin, leading a consortium of European industrial companies. www.esa.int /esaHS/SEMUR15V9ED_iss_0.html   (639 words)

The DAVID Mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI—Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) Continuing the exploration of increased frequency ranges, the DAVID (DAta and Video Interactive Distribution) Programme is a multi-experiment mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI—Agenzia Spaziale Italiana). Italian satellite mission development history is dominated by the need to explore increasing frequency ranges and characterizing, through experimental results, communications channels, in order to render them useful for the design of operational systems using these frequency ranges. Higher frequency ranges can be achieved by continual progress on the technological frontier (such as the development of new components or advanced integration techniques) and by improvements in the architecture and communications techniques of the yet-to-be-designed systems. www.ewh.ieee.org /soc/aes/taes/aes384/3841370.htm   (400 words)

ESA - PR - BIOS - EN - Paolo Nespoli Selected by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), in cooperation with ESA, Paolo Nespoli joined the European Astronaut Corps and entered the Mission Specialist Class at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA, in August 1998. In 1995, he was associated to the ESA's EUROMIR Project in the European Space Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where he was responsible of the team that prepared, integrated and supported the Payload and Crew Support Computer. As an astronaut training engineer, he contributed to the preparation and implementation of the European astronauts' basic training and he was responsible for the preparation and management of the astronauts' proficiency maintenance. www.estec.esa.nl /spaceflight/astronaut/eacpr/bios/cv_pn.htm   (453 words)

cooltech.iafrica.com space Satellite debris to hit Indonesia The Italian Space Agency said on its BeppoSAX website that the risk of anyone being hit by a fragment from the satellite was less than one in 5000. Debris from an Italian-Dutch space satellite may hit Indonesia in April, according to the Indonesian space agency. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN) said exposure to toxic substances from the battery and fuel of the BeppoSAX satellite could be fatal. cooltech.iafrica.com /space/222233.htm   (356 words)

Newswise The Italian Space Agency provided the high-gain antenna on the Cassini orbiter, much of the radio system and elements of several Cassini science instruments. The European Space Agency owns and manages the Huygens probe and is in charge of operations of the probe from its control center in Darmstadt, Germany. The European Space Agency (ESA), which owns and manages the Huygens probe, controls probe operations at the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. www.newswise.com /articles/view/509073   (1501 words)

STS-100 Payload: Raffaello -- A Space-Age Moving Van The Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), built by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), is the second of three such pressurized modules that will serve as the International Space Station's "moving vans," carrying laboratory racks filled with equipment, experiments and supplies to and from the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle. Raffaello is the second of three MPLMs supplied by the Italian Space Agency. The EXPRESS (Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station) Rack concept was developed to support small payloads on orbit with a shortened ground integration period. www.shuttlepresskit.com /STS-100/payload90.htm   (675 words)

International Space Station - World Wide Team In addition to Italian participation in the European Space Agency's efforts, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) independently is providing three Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules. The Russian Space Agency (RSA) is supplying about 1/3 the mass of the ISS in the form of a Service Module, Universal Docking Module, Science Power Platform, Docking Compartment and Research Modules. Under the direction of the Brazilian Space Agency, the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) in San Jose dos Campos is providing six items that in essence constitute attachments devices and a pallet on which experiments and equipment will ride in Space Shuttle missions to the ISS. www.boeing.com /defense-space/space/spacestation/overview/world_wide_team.html   (642 words)

Space Today Online - Is Cassini NASA's Last Mega-Mission? The complex interplanetary probe named Cassini, on a seven-year journey to the planet Saturn, and its moon Titan, is a cooperative endeavor of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana). Equipment also was provided by the Italian space agency, ASI. As a result, the Huygens probe was built by the European Space Agency, which also helped fund the overall project. www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Saturn/LastMegaMission.html   (355 words)

Scientists Claim To Have Revive Alien Bacteria Italian researchers claim to have found conclusive evidence that life on Earth arrived from outer space. The Italian researchers have also identified microorganisms identical to the "cryms" found in the Naples meteorites in 50 samples of billion-year-old terrestrial rocks from five continents. Bruno D'Argenio, a geologist working for the Italian National Research Council, and Giuseppe Geraci, professor of molecular biology at Naples University, identified and brought back to life extraterrestrial microorganisms lodged inside 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites kept at Naples' mineralogical museum. www.rense.com /general10/REVIVE.HTM   (426 words)

Washington File The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Agenzie Spaziale Italiana, the Italian space agency. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The European Space Agency's Huygens probe detached from NASA's Cassini orbiter December 24 to begin a three-week journey to Saturn's moon, Titan, according to a NASA press release. www.globalsecurity.org /space/library/news/2004/space-041227-usia01.htm   (835 words)

ESA - Human Spaceflight - Astronauts - First Italian astronaut to be flown to the International Space Station on board a Russian spacecraft A test pilot and Lieutenant Colonel in the Italian Air Force, Roberto Vittori, one of three Italian astronauts selectioned by ASI in the European Astronaut Corps, will be Flight Engineer on the Soyuz vehicle, alongside the Russian Soyuz Commander, Yuri Gidzenko, and Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth, from South Africa. ASI is the agency sponsoring this flight and the related experimental programme, under the terms of a framework agreement between the European Space Agency on the one hand and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos) and the Russian company RSC Energia on the other. The mission is a further mark of Europe's determination to intensify its fruitful cooperation with Russia, as ESA's Director of Manned Spaceflight and Microgravity, Jörg Feustel-Büechl, confirms: "Roberto Vittori's mission to the International Space Station is another important milestone in the Euro-Russian cooperation which is contributing to the strategic development of both partners. www.esa.int /export/esaHS/ESAS7BVTYWC_astronauts_0.html   (413 words)

CBC News:30 countries on alert for falling satellite The satellite orbits the Earth and was operated by the Italian Space Agency and the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace. U.S. government authorities have helped the Italian Space Agency to track the satellite's location and its estimated re-entry date and time were revised regularly. ROME - Italian officials have alerted 30 countries that a satellite is expected to break into pieces as it enters the Earth's atmosphere Tuesday evening. www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/04/29/bepposax030429   (242 words)

print.asp?v=01&i=14&a=5 Cassini-Huygens is a cooperative mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. An experiment by Italian scientists using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, currently en route to Saturn, confirms Einstein's theory of general relativity with a precision that is 50 times greater than previous measurements. The round-trip light time is the time it takes the signal transmitted from the Deep Space Network station in Goldstone California, to the spacecraft on the other side of the Sun and back traveling at the speed of light. news.space-explorers.com /print.asp?v=01&i=14&a=5   (666 words)

SABCnews.com - world/south_america The agency said it was also too early to say how muchdamage the 1,400kg satellite could cause when it crashed, but it was likely to break up into 42 fragments when it entered orbit, according to the Italian Space Agency. The Brazilian Space Agency said in a statement it was too soon to conclude exactly where the satellite would land, but Brazilian and Italian authorities formed a group to monitor its trajectory over the coming days. The agency said Brazilian authorities had been contacted by the Italian Space Agency, which estimated the satellite, the BeppoSAX, was most likely to re-enter orbit on May 1 but could crash to Earth any time between next Tuesday and May 4. www.sabcnews.com /world/south_america/0,2172,57553,00.html   (290 words)

Space Agencies The Italian Space Agency is highly involved in astronomy missions. The European Space Agency is a conglomerate of 15 Member States in Europe. There are numerous space agencies around the world, many of them whom work together in international projects such as the www.imagiverse.org /resources/exploration/space_agencies.htm   (450 words)

sts-46-press-kit.txt Satellite Developed by the Italian Space Agency, the spherical satellite is a little more than 5 feet in diameter and is latched atop the deployer's satellite support structure. Malerba is a founding member of the Italian Space Society. The space missions now being planned - which are both more complex and of longer duration - call for increased amounts of propellant for their propulsion systems which, in turn, leads to an increase in the overall spacecraft mass to the detriment of the scientific or applications payload. science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/missions/sts-46/sts-46-press-kit.txt   (13087 words)

Malerba After the Payload Specialist selection in 1989 by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and NASA for the TSS-1 mission, he became a staff member of ASI and was assigned to the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, for training. He is now involved with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) manned space flight program follow-on activities. Astronaut Group: Italian Space Agency Group - 1990, Payload Specialist. www.astronautix.com /astros/malerba.htm   (475 words)

Space Agencies ESRIN is one of the four establishements of the European Space Agency. The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) is the National public institution which co-ordinates and represents the space activities in Romania. These activities are conducted primarily within the framework of the international organisations to which Belgium belongs (e.g.: the European Space Agency (ESA), the European organisation for the exploitation of meteorological satellites (EUMETSAT), or within the framework of bilateral agreements (e.g. www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/www/yp_agency.html   (1181 words)

IADC In 1999 the Italian civil space budget reached the amount of 450 Meuro, shared between ESA (270 Meuro) and national activities (180 Meuro). A National Space Plan (PSN) has been established to promote, support and control a coordinated program for the scientific, technological and commercial applications of space activities as well as to promote new technological capabilities in the Italian Aerospace Industries. Moreover, ASI provides technical support to the Italian delegation at the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). www.iadc-online.org /members/about_asi.shtml   (305 words)

news The Italian Space Agency's "Raffaello" Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), the second of three for the International Space Station, is scheduled to arrive at Kennedy Space Center late Wednesday, Aug. 4. Following the agreement in principle between ESA and the Italian Space Agency to use the ECLS for both the Columbus Orbital Facility (COF) and MPLM, specific tasks related to the harmonization of MPLM/COF ECLS technical requirements and specifications were also initiated in industry. Pending the above approval, ESA continued to work together with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to finalize the text of the ESA/ASI Agreement relating to this development and the provision by ASI of an MPLM structure for the COF 'design-to-cost' baseline. home.comcast.net /~spacereport/pc/MPLMPC.html   (1467 words)

Mars Exploration: Missions NASA is participating in a mission planned by the European Space Agency and the Italian space agency called Mars Express, which will explore the atmosphere and surface of Mars from polar orbit. For more information, see the U.S. participation in Mars Express and the Mars Express home page at the European Space Agency. The spacecraft will carry a science payload with some heritage from European instruments lost on the ill-fated Russian Mars '96 mission, as well as a communications relay to support lander missions. marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/present/express.html   (221 words)

Cassini Spacecraft - launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station It is a joint NASA, European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency Mission. The European Space Agency (ESA) built the Hugens probe. The Cassini Spacecraft was created by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). www.aerospaceguide.net /spacecraft/cassinispacecraft.html   (650 words)

A Survey Of The Italian Space Debris Related Activities - Battaglia, Rossi (ResearchIndex) Abstract: Since the end of the 80's the Italian Space Agency (ASI) devoted its attention to the problem of space debris, at the time mainly focused on the uncontrolled reentry in the atmosphere of hazardous space objects. Battaglia, P. and Rossi, A., A survey of the Italian space debris related activities, 47 th International Astronautical Congress, IAA.-96-IAA.6.4.08, Beijing, China, October 7--11, 1996. A Survey Of The Italian Space Debris Related Activities (1996) citeseer.ist.psu.edu /battaglia96survey.html   (540 words)

Cassini-Huygens (U.S., the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency) Cassini-Huygens (U.S., the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency) Cassini-Huygens - The Cassini-Huygens mission, launched in 1997 as a joint endeavor of NASA, the European Space... The Cassini-Huygens mission is named for the Italian-French astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini, who discovered four of Saturn's major moons, and the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, the first to find Saturn's rings and its largest moon, Titan. www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0762843.html   (442 words)

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