{"id":167134,"date":"2025-12-17T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/diplomazia-economica-e-politica-commerciale\/diplomaziaeconomica\/spazio\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:53:26","slug":"spazio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/diplomazia-economica-e-politica-commerciale\/diplomaziaeconomica\/spazio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Space Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The space sector is an extraordinary driver of <strong>technology innovation, competitiveness<\/strong>, and <strong>economic growth<\/strong> for the country.<\/p>\n<p>In this field too, Italy confirms the <strong>excellence of its know-how<\/strong>, thanks to <strong>leading companies, numerous highly innovative startups and SMEs<\/strong>, as well as solid participation in <strong>major European and international programmes<\/strong>, such as Copernicus and Galileo.<\/p>\n<p>Space is also <strong>a central component of our foreign policy and growth diplomacy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Within the framework of the Export Pact, the goal is the <strong>complete internationalization of the Italian space supply chain<\/strong>, which excels in key sectors such as the production of satellites and habitation modules, launch services, space engineering, cybersecurity, and satellite data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>European dimension<\/strong> remains fundamental to supporting the future of innovation and growth. Italy, <strong>a founding member of the European Space Agency (ESA) <\/strong>and the <strong>third-largest funder<\/strong> of its activities, will host the next <strong>Ministerial Meeting<\/strong> in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The new space economy industry is taking on <strong>an increasingly strategic<\/strong> role, also for its implications for <strong>security, technological autonomy<\/strong>, and <strong>the protection of critical infrastructure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As early as the Cold War, at the height of the so-called &#8220;Space Race,&#8221; Italy distinguished itself as the <strong>third country<\/strong>, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to launch its own satellite: <strong>on December 15, 1964<\/strong>, <strong>San Marco 1<\/strong>, the fruit of the work of a team led by engineer Luigi Broglio, took off from the Wallops base. To commemorate that feat, starting in 2021, <strong>National Space Day<\/strong> is celebrated on December 16.<\/p>\n<p>Through the <strong>Malindi space centre in Kenya<\/strong>, dedicated to Luigi Broglio, Italy is preparing to become <strong>a hub of reference for Africa\u2019s education and growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The space sector is an extraordinary driver of technology innovation, competitiveness, and economic growth for the country. In this field too, Italy confirms the excellence of its know-how, thanks to leading companies, numerous highly innovative startups and SMEs, as well as solid participation in major European and international programmes, such as Copernicus and Galileo. Space [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44830,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-167134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167135,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167134\/revisions\/167135"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}