LEONARDO S.P.A. By
Fucino,
It is the "Piero Fanti" Space Centre run by spaceflight services company
On the 37 hectares facility 250 engineers, technicians and scientists work 24 hours a day throughout the year to control the 170 operational antennas that receive signals from satellites in space.
The centre controls satellite orbits, manages space missions, telecommunications, television and multimedia services, and offers the services to governments, companies and civil entities around the world.
Leonardo has been in
The organisation organised a visit to their delegations in
Thanks to Fucino's satellites it is possible, for example, to warn of possible fires in the Amazon, control whether oil companies are polluting the oceans or check if a fuel stain is heading to a coast.
These spies in the skies also take photos of areas affected by earthquakes or other meteorological disasters to gather information that can help local authorities make decisions and guarantee radio and television signals on national and international digital platforms.
The centre started operations in 1962 with only three vans and one antenna.
Now it has 14 operation rooms and is known as the most important satellite control facility for civil use in the world.
So much so that it is one of the two centres - the other one is in
In Fucino, the quality of the Galileo ground station signals is monitored, while
The
It also supervises satellite launches and early orbit phases, the most crucial, since it is when they are separated from their launch vehicles. The centre is located on a plateau, which was a lake until the 19th century, in the Abruzzo area, surrounded by mountains that protect it from electromagnetic interference.
It also has two generators capable of producing enough electricity to continue working in the event of a national power outage.
Leonardo wants
At the beginning of the year, the corporation signed an agreement - through its subsidiary Telespazio Brazil - with the corporation
In
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