An international workshop entitled "Novel Spaceways for Scientific and Exploration Missions" is to be held at the Fucino Space Centre and at the Scuola Superiore Reiss Romoli in L'Aquila 15 to 17 October.
The opening ceremony will be held on 15 October at the Telespazio’s Fucino Space Centre, and will be attended by Giuseppe Veredice, CEO of Telespazio, the Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori, Silvano Casini, European Space Agency, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello, University of Sao Paulo, and Reno Mandolesi, INAF/Italy.
The workshop marks the opening of Telespazio’s Space OPS Academy, which will develop its students’ technical and professional skills in the strategic sectors of satellite management, integration of satellite capabilities, Earth observation services, satellite navigation, integrated connectivity and value added.
The Space OPS Academy aims to become a centre of excellence that will promote networking between companies, universities, research bodies and government agencies. The objective is to develop expertise, facilitate the spread of scientific knowledge, share international experience, encourage interconnection between multi-disciplinary sectors, boost research and innovation, and systemise know-how in the sector.
Telespazio plans to promote knowledge sharing between the sectors of international satellite missions and services, and communications. To do this it is offering its particular strategic core capabilities, which range flight dynamics to ground systems management and satellite operations. More generally, it is offering its intellectual capital, as well as its hardware and software assets, for the initiative.