SAT Expo News

The Vice-minister for Economic Development, Hon. Adolfo Urso, will open “Ready for EGNOS! A new Era for European Navigation,” at  09.15 a.m. in the SAT Expo Room, Fiera Roma, Thursday, 4 February. The Conference organized with the European Commission will present the new European satellite navigation system’s applications, which are already operational and will refine [...]

Saturday 6 February marks a key event: the “Space Culture. An opportunity for Youth Formation and the Development of new Professions” Round Table, with contributions from the City of Rome, the University of la “Sapienza,” ASI, IEEE and AIDAA. The conference will feature discussions on training by important individuals in the university, research and industry [...]

At SAT Expo Europe 2010 the future of Space Professions. R2b (Research to Business) meetings between researchers and university and aerospace industry experts The world of Italian research is among the most prestigious in the world. Often researchers, though brilliant, are unable to find an appropriate middleman to understand their project, or do not identify [...]

Mr René Oosterlinck, ESA’s Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities, signed the first three contracts for the Galileo full operational capability phase. This event marks the start of building the Galileo operational infrastructure. The signing ceremony took place at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre at Noordwijk (The Netherlands) in the presence [...]

The team consisting of the US firm Lockheed Martin and the Italian company e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) has been awarded a contract worth up to USD 85 million by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide data, products and services from the COSMO-SkyMed satellites. The contract was signed in Denver (Colorado) and has a duration of five [...]

After a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage the rescue teams needed new satellite high resolution maps, because such a powerful earthquake can make current maps suddenly out of date, causing additional challenges to rescue workers on the ground. Following the event, the French [...]

In occasion of the Official Inauguration of SAT Expo Europe 2010, ISRO (Indian Space Agency)will inaugurate the International Exhibition on February 3rd 2010 at the prestigious Mayor’s Office, Campidoglio, Sala del Carroccio in Rome, with the Italian Space representatives: ASI, FINMECCANICA and the President of SAT Expo Europe. An International Press Conference will open the [...]

Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President in charge of Transport, has announced the award of three of the six contracts for the procurement of Galileo’s initial operational capability. The European Commission has selected the consortium led by OHB-System AG (Germany) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL, UK) for building and testing 14 satellites for the Galileo [...]

Vessel traffic security of Venice lagoon will be guaranteed by SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica Group Company. Selex has been awarded a contract for the realization of the phase 1 of the Integrated Monitoring Telematic System (STIM) that will enable the vessel movements surveillance of the Venice lagoon and perform, in a security way, the [...]

Saturday, Febraury 6th 02.30 PM – 03.30 PM Marconi Room Workshop by Eldy and Open-Sky