The Italian Space Agency (Italian: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana; ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote, coordinate, and conduct space activities in Italy. Operating under the Ministry of the Universities and Scientific and Technological Research, the Agency cooperates with numerous international and Italian entities, who are active in space technology, and with the Italian President of the Council of Ministers. Internationally, the ASI provides Italy's delegation to the Council of the European Space Agency and to its subordinate bodies. ASI's main headquarters are located in Rome, Italy. The agency also has two operational centers, located in Matera and Trapani (both in Italy), and a spaceport, the San Marco platform, on the coastal sublittoral of Kenya. The ASI's annual budget is $900 million. Image File history File links Seal of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Layers of Atmosphere - not to scale (NOAA)[1] Outer space, sometimes simply called space, refers to the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... Established: 1974 Administrator: Jean-Jacques Dordain Budget: €2. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... A street corner in the ancient Sassi di Matera as it looks today. ... Torre della Colombaia Trapani (2004 population 67,456) is a city in the west coast of Sicily in Italy. ... The San Marco Launch Platform, with a Scout rocket on the launchpad The Italian space research program was launched in 1959 with the creation of the CRA (Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali) in the Rome university. ...

Products

• Various experiment (TSS-1, LAGEOS II, SAR X, TSS-1R, UV-STAR, SRTM...) in collaboration whith NASA.
• Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, an Italian project owned by NASA.
• BeppoSAX, a satellite for X-ray astronomy.
• Cassini–Huygens in collaboration whith NASA and European Space Agency.
• Sicral 1/1B/2, military communication satellites.
• Mars Express in collaboration whith ESA.
• AGILE, a satellite for X-ray and Gamma ray astronomy.
• COSMO-SkyMed, a satellite costellation for dual SAR Earth observation.
• Vega, a planned expendable launch system developed jointly by the ASI and the ESA.

Plus some direct involving in ESA projects like ERS-1/2, Envisat, Meteosat, EOPP, SOHO, Cluster II, ISO, XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, Rosetta, Planck Surveyor and Mars Express. A tether satellite is a satellite connected to another by a thin cable called a tether. ... The LAGEOS-1 satellite. ... A tether satellite is a satellite connected to another by a thin cable called a tether. ... The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is a research effort that obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth to date. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nations public space program. ... March 10, 2001 - The Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module rests in Discoverys payload bay in this view taken from the ISS by a crew member using a digital still camera during STS-102. ... BeppoSAX was an Italian-Dutch satellite for X-ray astronomy. ... An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ... In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz... Cassini–Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI unmanned space mission intended to study Saturn and its moons. ... Established: 1974 Administrator: Jean-Jacques Dordain Budget: €2. ... Concept model of the Mars Express spacecraft Main Engine Thrust for braking manouevre Mars Express is a Mars exploration mission of the European Space Agency and the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. ... AGILE is an X-ray and Gamma ray astronomical satellite of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). ... This article is about electromagnetic radiation. ... COSMO-SkyMed is an Earth observation satellite system funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and Ministry of Defence and conducted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), intended for both military and civilian use. ... The surface of Venus, as imaged by the Magellan probe using SAR Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar in which sophisticated post-processing of radar data is used to produce a very narrow effective beam. ... Earth observation satellites are satellites specifically designed to observe Earth from orbit, similar to reconnaissance satellites but intended for non-military uses such as environmental monitoring, meteorology, map making etc. ... Vega (ESA) Vega is a planned expendable launch system developed jointly by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency since 1998, with the first launch planned for 2006. ... An expendable launch system or expendable launch vehicle, ELV, is a single-use launch vehicle usually used to launch a payload into space. ... European Remote-Sensing satellite (ERS) was the European Space Agencys first Earth-observing satellite. ... The Envisat (Environmental Satellite) satellite is an Earth-observing satellite built by the European Space Agency. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft that was launched on an Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995 to study the Sun, and began normal operations in May 1996. ... Cluster satellite FM2 The Cluster mission is an European Space Agency (ESA) unmanned space mission mission to study the Earths magnetosphere using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. ... The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)is a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). ... This article is about XMM-Newton. ... In calculus, the integral of a function is an extension of the concept of a sum. ... Rosetta is a European Space Agency-led unmanned space mission launched in 2004 intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ... WMAP image, unrelated to Planck The Planck Surveyor is the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESAs Horizon 2000 Scientific Programme. ... Concept model of the Mars Express spacecraft Main Engine Thrust for braking manouevre Mars Express is a Mars exploration mission of the European Space Agency and the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. ...

External link

• Official website