January 2018, Year X, n. 1
Giulio Ranzo
The space man
Telos: Italy, a country on the cutting edge of the aerospace industry. This statement may seem a joke, but it’s not. What role has Avio played in making it real?
Giulio Ranzo: Italy’s been involved in Space exploration since the fifties. From that moment on the country has always been extremely interested in access to Space. Initially, when sounding rockets were launched to explore the atmosphere, and then afterwards, when artificial satellites began to be sent up in the mid-sixties. In the seventies Italy started to develop its own satellites and manage ground stations to receive and analyse signals. ...more
Editorial
‘Space, the final frontier’, I challenge you to complete this sentence, the incipit of every episode of the TV series and every Star Trek film. The adventures of men (but also of other species) who travelled ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’. No-one is immune to the fascination of space. ...more
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