Italian Space Agency

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*Agenzia Spaziale Italiana*
Owner	Italy
Established	1988^[1]
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Administrator	Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami
Budget	€1 billion^[2]
Website	www.asi.it

The Italian Space Agency (Italian: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana; ASI) was founded in 1988 to promote, coordinate, and conduct space activities in Italia (Italy). Operating under the Ministry of the Universities and Scientific and Technological Research, the Agency cooperates with numerous international and Italian entities, who are active in space technology, and with the Italian President of the Council of Ministers. Internationally, the ASI provides Italy's delegation to the Council of the European Space Agency and to its subordinate bodies. ASI's main headquarters are located in Rome, Italy. The agency also has two operational centers, located in Matera and Trapani (both in Italy), and a spaceport, the San Marco platform, on the coastal sublittoral of Kenya. The ASI's annual budget is $978 million.

1 Products
2 See also
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Products

Various experiment (TSS-1, LAGEOS II, SAR X, TSS-1R, UV-STAR, SRTM...) in collaboration with NASA.
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, an Italian project owned by NASA.
BeppoSAX, a satellite for X-ray astronomy.
Cassini–Huygens in collaboration with NASA and European Space Agency.
Sicral 1/1B/2, military communication satellites.
Mars Express in collaboration with ESA.
Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission in collaboration with NASA.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in collaboration with NASA
AGILE, a satellite for X-ray and Gamma ray astronomy.
COSMO-SkyMed, a satellite constellation for dual purpose SAR Earth observation.
Vega, a planned expendable launch system developed jointly by the ASI and the ESA.
Harmony, has been built in Italy, in Turin for NASA.