Microgravity and Human Exploration

Italian Space Agency main activities and programmes

Space EU Conference

Bruxelles 28th February 2012

Cristiana Cirina Italian Space Agency National and International Relations Unit Responsible of EU affairs office Contents Documento di Visione Strategica 2010-2020 http://www.asi.it/it/agenzia/documenti_istituzionali

{ Strategic elements

{ Foreign policy guidelines

{ Programmatic areas

{ Economic and financial elements

2 The Strategic Plan Pillars

Respond to the goal and needs expressed by the citizens

Reinforce knowledge society

Pursue activities which will inspire the dreams and fuel the aspirations of future generations

Use space as a proactive mean for economic developments and international diplomacy

3 Main elements of the strategy

{ Keep and improve the present Italian position in Deep and Near Space Observation

{ Stimulate the growing of technological centers of excellence in Italy between SMEs, Universities and Research Centers in sinergy with big companies

{ Promote the creation of Public Private Partnership (PPP) for big national space projects

{ Develop useful integrated applications including Earth Observation, radiolocalization/navigation and Telecomunications

4 Strategic tools

{ Playing adequate roles in international partmership

{ Driving exploration through use of ISS and via the ExoMars missions

{ Giving priority to dual-use programs

{ Exploiting use of PPP as a means to enhance economic resource availability

{ Promoting a national culture of awareness and involvement in space

5 Guidelines of European International Policy

{ Maintain a very close cooperation with the European Space Agency (Italian contribution 50% of the annual budget)

{ Support ESA role as Agency for European Space Policies

{ Be an active player in all EU activities relevant to space

{ Reinforce bilateral cooperation with main EU countries

6 Reinforce extra-European international cooperation

{ USA, Russia

{ Argentina, Brazil, Kenya, Japan, India, China, Korea, Israel, Egypt, Australia

7 Programmatic areas

{ Deep Space Observation and Robotic Exploration

{ Microgravity and Human Exploration

{ Earth Observation

{ Telecommunications

{ Access to Space

{ Navigation

{ Technologies

{ Education 8 Deep Space Observation and Robotic Exploration

ASI participates in the field of deep space exploration through the ESA “Cosmic Vision” science programme ExoMars BepiColombo

Support to national scientific instruments to be hosted on international missions 9 Deep Space Observation and Robotic Exploration ASI intends, within the limits of the available resources, to best serve our national centers of scientific excellence and to strengthen synergies among scientific communities to enable the analysis and interpretation of data

Dawn Sharad

Participation in bilateral programs with NASA e ROSCOSMOS Pamela

Juno

10 Microgravity and Human Exploration

Italian Astronauts members of European Astronauts Corps: F. Malerba, U. Guidoni, M. Cheli, P. Nespoli, R. Vittori, L. Parmitano e S. Cristoforetti

11 Microgravity and Human Exploration

Italy, through NASA and ESA, is the first European country in the ISS Node 2 Columbus

Maintain the leadership role in the Cupola Microgravity life sciences (Biomedicine, MPLM Biotechnology, Microgravity and Nanotecnology)

Analysis and support of national proposals relevant to experiments on 12 ISS Earth Observation

COSMO-SkyMed Italy is a world leader in the production and management of the only Earth Observation dual use system with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) operating at X-Band

4 satellites already in orbit

ASI foresees to fund, in the next three years, the realization of COSMO-SkyMed second generation

ASI collaborates with Argentina for SIASGE system which integrates COSMO-SKyMed 4 satellites operating at X-Band with the Argentinan system SAOCOM with 2 satellites operating at L-Band 13 Earth Observation

{ COSMO-SkyMed { ROSA National missions { PRISMA { OPSIS (next slides)

{ SIASGE: Argentina { SAC-D: Argentina International missions { Shalom (iperspectral): Israel { OCEANSAT-2: India

{ ERS/ENVISAT { Earth Observation Envelope Program ESA missions { GMES { MTG (Meteosat third Generation) { METOP Second Generation (to be 14 approved at CM12) Earth Observation ASI center in Matera “City Science”

ÖASI intends to create an “Excellence Center” to receive, archive and process sensed data using data fusion and data mining tecniques (including GMES Sentinels)

Ö International database to be used by Institutions, private citizen, SMEs and other companies interested in the development of new services. 15 Telecommunications

ASI intends to start technological developments in satellite telecommunications in line with advanced evolutions in this field both in the space segment and in the terrestrial one Necessary funding source will be assembled through PPP scheme

16 Telecommunications

Athena-Fidus programme with Italian Ministry of Defence, CNES and French DGA for the launch of a dual use satellite operating in Ku and Ka band

ASI intends to start the national telecommunication programme “SIGMA” (Satellite Italiano Guglielmo MArconi)

17 Athena Fidus Access to space

VEGA FLIGHT ON 13TH FEBRUARY: A FULL SUCCESS!

ESA Programme, Italian industry prime contractorship: ELV (70% AVIO SpA, 30% ASI) VEGA 18 Access to space

Research and development of new propulsion systems

Leadership in the ESA IXV development programme

Support to VEGA consolidation phase

19 Navigation

Galileo (PRS)

PRESAGO: project designed to determine and analyse the technical, organizational and procedural methods for the use of PRS at the national level.

SENECA: joint national ASI and ENAV Programme aimed at gradually introducing the satellite navigation, starting from EGNOS programme, into the Civil Aviation control procedures 20 Navigation

Galileo Control Center -Fucino GALILEO: maintain Italian role in the project

EGNOS: support the full utilization of EGNOS system taking maximum advantage of the European navigation infrastructure 21 Technologies

{ Microelectronics

{ Nanotechnologies

{ New Materials

{ Innovative Energy Saving Architectures

4 dedicated calls for SMEs on : materials, components and sensors, Earth Observation, telecommunications, navigation and integrated applications. First two calls have already been issued. 22

Education

{ Increase national interest in space activities

{ Attract young people to technical and scientific careers

{ Bring awareness of science and technology to the younger generation

23 Italian “flagship” programmes

Three projects have been indicated in the National Research Programme 2010-2012 as “Italian flagship” programmes for the space area:

COSMO-SkyMed 2nd generation – Earth Observation

SIGMA - Telecommunications

OPSIS – High resolution optical satellite for remote sensing – Earth Observation

These programs are included in the rolling ASI three year activities plan. 24 Economic and financial elements

National 53% 33,4% Programmes

Operational Centers

Running Expenses

ESA contributions 3,6% 10%

Financial Planning forOverallExpenses2010‐2020 25 Economic and financial elements

Microgravity and Human Exploration

8% Earth Observation 26% 28%

Telecommunications

Access to Space

5% 27% 6% Technology

Deep Space Observation and Robotic Exploration

Financial Plan for ESA Contributions over the period 2010‐2020

26 Economic and financial elements

Microgravity and Human Exploration

Access to Space 25% 6% 4%

Earth Observation

Technology 11% Telecommunication 4% 50%

Deep Space Observation and Robotic exploration

Financial Plan for National Initiatives for the period 2010‐2020 27 Economic and financial elements

Microgravity and Human Exploration

Access to Space 8% 18% 25% Technology

Earth Observation 8% Telecommunication 5% 36% Deep Space Observation and Robotic exploration

Global Financial Plan for expenses in the period 2010‐2020 by sector 28 For further information: [email protected]

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