The article “National Space Day, Italy is ever more protagonist” highlights how many services on Earth benefit from Space technologies. And with digitalisation, the potential offered by the exploitation of data from Space is multiplying. According to Massimo Comparini, Managing Director Space Business Unit of Leonardo and Chairman of Thales Alenia Space Supervisory Board, “The Space sector is an undisputed Italian excellence to which Leonardo contributes in a fundamental way with very high-tech products and services. Space is an important domain in the technological evolution of our society, and we must address many development opportunities and new challenges linked to the evolution of the sector, in which Europe and Italy can play a leading role."
The article “Towards the search for new worlds. Leonardo’s 26 telescopes are ready” is dedicated to the “technological eyes” that will be used in the satellite of the ESA’s Plato (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission to study planets outside the solar system, similar to Earth, in which life forms may have developed. Built by Leonardo at its Campi Bisenzio site (Florence), the telescopes are the result of highly advanced optical engineering skills, also based on the use of “digital twins” in the definition phase of the production process that has allowed for speeding up the times and industrial-scale production of an instrument that is normally produced in a single unit.
