Italian Space Agency

Italian Space Agency

Infobox Space agency
name = "Agenzia Spaziale Italiana"
acronym = ASI


caption =
size = 143px
owner = flag|Italy
headquarters = Rome, Italy
established = 1988 [Known as the "Italian Space Research Program" from 1959 to 1988.]
administrator = Ing. Enrico Saggese
budget = €1 billion [$1350 million million; PDFlink|http://www.asi.it/html/ita/news/Space%20Activities%20Report%202005%20Italy.pdf|387 KiB ]
URL = [http://www.asi.it www.asi.it]

The Italian Space Agency ( _it. 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.

Products

*Various experiment (TSS-1, LAGEOS II, SAR X, TSS-1R, UV-STAR, SRTM...) in collaboration with NASA.
*Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, an Italian project owned by NASA.
*BeppoSAX, a satellite for X-ray astronomy.
*Cassini–Huygens in collaboration with NASA and European Space Agency.
*Sicral 1/1B/2, military communication satellites.
*Mars Express in collaboration with ESA.
*Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission in collaboration with NASA.
*Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in collaboration with NASA
*AGILE, a satellite for X-ray and Gamma ray astronomy.
*COSMO-SkyMed, a satellite constellation for dual purpose SAR Earth observation.
*Vega, a planned expendable launch system developed jointly by the ASI and the ESA.
*Harmony, has been built in Italy, in Turin for NASA.

Plus some direct involving in ESA projects like Galileo positioning system, ERS-1/2, Envisat, Meteosat, EOPP, SOHO, Cluster II, ISO, XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, Rosetta, Planck Surveyor and Mars Express.

See also

* STS-120
* Paolo Nespoli
* Roberto Vittori

Notes

External links

* [http://www.asi.it Official website]


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