21/12/24 | Spazio
AXIOM astronauts train at the flight test facility
In recent days, two Axiom Space astronauts, the American Michael López-Alegría, commander of the Ax-3 mission which also saw the astronaut as protagonist in recent months...
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18/10/24 | Spazio
Sardinia, PISQ: Second test of the Zefiro 40 engine successfully performed at AVIO's Space Propulsion Test Facility
It was successfully carried out in recent weeks, at the horizontal static bench for engine tests within the areas belonging to the Interforce Polygon of Salto di...
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17/10/24 | Spazio
X-37B Tests New Space Maneuver
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) will begin performing a series of innovative maneuvers called aerobraking to alter its orbit around Earth and shed...
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19/08/24 | Spazio
Qianfan satellites: towards the Chinese megaconstellation
It is not possible to talk about satellites without talking about SpaceX, the American satellite operator, and its Starlink constellation. Starlink is in fact the largest constellation...
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22/02/24 | Spazio
Commander of Space Forces in the Indo-Pacific stresses importance of 'space superiority'
During the Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare Symposium held in Aurora (USA) on 13 February, Brig. gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander of the United States Space Forces...
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02/02/24 | Spazio
Ax-3 mission: the AM ISOC experiment on the International Space Station successfully completed
On 31 January and 1 February 2024, tests relating to the "ISOC services for ISS" experimentation were carried out on board the International Space Station. The ...
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31/01/24 | Spazio
Space: SST/SSA operator course for the control of the space environment completed in Pratica di Mare
Last January 19th, at the RACSA (airspace control training department) in Pratica di Mare, with the support of the RSV/DASAS aerospace engineering group (...
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09/11/23 | Spazio
Europe and the space launcher crisis
At the ESA (European Space Agency) space summit in Seville, Italy, France and Germany signed an agreement to overcome the launcher crisis and guarantee Europe a...
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22/10/23 | Spazio
Alarm is growing over China's space program
During a recent US Department of Defense briefing they discussed a report on the power...
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12/09/23 | Spazio
Air Force: soon on board the ISS to contribute to the Italian space strategy
The Air Force will be on board Axiom Space's Ax-3 mission, whose launch is scheduled no earlier than January...
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20/04/23 | Spazio
Defence: agreement signed with the USA for the assignment of an Italian liaison officer to the United States Space Command
On April 19, a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed for the assignment of a liaison officer...
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23/03/23 | Spazio
The European Union is strengthening its response architecture to space threats
In March 2023, the European Union (EU) carried out two important exercises, in the context of the space domain ...
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14/03/23 | Spazio
Space Operations Command participates in AsterX 2023
For the third consecutive year, the French commandement de l'espace (CDE) has organized the exercise of a character...
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19/01/23 | Spazio
SPACE: Document establishing the NATO center of excellence signed
It was signed yesterday, Wednesday January 18, in Paris, at the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of France, the ...
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20/12/22 | Spazio
National Space Day - Contributed by the Space General Office of the SMD
On 16 December, the second edition of the National Space Day was celebrated, inspired by the launch...
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24/11/22 | Spazio
Space: Air Force captain in the new generation of ESA astronauts
Captain Patassa, after a degree in Aeronautical Sciences at the Federico II University of Naples and a long ...
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19/08/22 | Spazio
Space: Global Sentinel 2022 completed at the Vandenberg space base (USA)
The exercise was held from 25 July to 3 August 2022 at the Space Force Base in Vandenberg (California, USA) ...
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11/07/22 | Spazio
Meeting between the SMD chief and the USSF Space Operations commander
Today at the headquarters of the Defense Staff, the meeting between the Defense Chief of Staff was held ...
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23/05/22 | Spazio
Space Threat Response Architecture Exercise 2022: the defense of EU space assets
From 10 to 13 May, the Space Threat Response Architecture Exercise (STRA-22) took place to verify the adequacy ...
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02/05/22 | Spazio
Change of space operations commander
This morning, at the Francesco Baracca military airport, the alternation ceremony took place ...
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Publishing
In Defense of Cecilia Sala: Reflections on Justice and (Juvenile) Opinions in Freedom
The news of the arrest and detention of Cecilia Sala in the homeland prisons of the happy Islamic Republic of Iran, now belongs to the past news. Far from sharing the whys and the...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Save the Navy!"
Dear Director, We kindly ask you to publish this letter, which is as open as it is heartfelt and truthful, concerning the need to “save” the Navy from a situation...
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