News and events

Space economy: STAM is the ESA Technology Broker in Italy

ESA Spark Founding kicks off, over EUR 1 million for innovative solutions between space and earth. Seeking the best enabling and innovative technologies for future space missions, promoting technology transfer between space and non-space sectors, and vice versa.

Photo Credit: Cristian Manieri on Pixaby

ESA and ASI welcomed STAM: the new Italian Technology Broker

At the ASI workshop entitled “Space technologies for the future ASI missions”, different ESA initiatives as well as ASI next steps were illustrated. The occasion also served to present STAM as new Technology Broker.

Photo Credit: ASI website

Concrete answer to the climate change: EarthCARE

Aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency- JAXA- launched EarthCARE from the Vandenberg base in California on 29 May at 00:20 Italian time. EarthCARE targets the study of clouds and aerosols.

Photo Credit: ASI website

Venus: a still active planet

Volcanism is still taking place, as shown by recent data analysis from NASA’s Magellan mission. Three Italian researchers made the discovery, benefitting from Italian Space Agency funding.

Photo Credit: NASA on ASI website

Space and Green energy sectors synergies at the core of ESA Commercialisation Days series

ESA Headquarter in Paris hosted the ESA Commercialisation Days on April 15-16, 2024. On the agenda “Energy Sustainability” and “Energy Resilience”. More than one hundred participants joined the event.

Photo Credit: ESA Commercialisation Gateaway website

ESA’s in-space transportation club

ESA is enabling the future: an ecosystem with a scalable, modular in-space transportation fleet based on optimised reusable launchers.

Photo Credit: ESA Commercialisation Gateaway website