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'...
more
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 $978 million.
Activities started officially on 1988 But the Agency drew extensively on the consolidated experience of the many Italian scientists that had been investigating space and astronautics since the end...
less
