Présentation de la politique spatiale de l'Italie, de 1957, année du lancement du Spoutnik, jusqu'à la création de l'Agence spatiale européenne en 1975. Les relations entre la science, les arts militaires et les politiques économiques sont étudiées. ©Electre 2024
About two decades separate the launch of Sputnik (1957) and the creation of the European Space Agency (1975). These two dates are considered to mark the beginning and end of the early history of Italy in space.
In the wake of the Sputnik shock, Italy became involved very early on in a remarkable effort in space affairs. Thanks to the brilliant work of the physicist Edoardo Amaldi and aerospace engineer Luigi Broglio, Italy began, in the late fifties, its effort at building up national space institutions and at the same time cooperated in the creation of European space organisations while fostering bilateral cooperation with the USA.
The history of the 'stop and go' development of the two major national programmes, the San Marco project and SIRIO project, which defined the sixties and seventies, is reconstructed, following the parallel growth of Italy's involvement in the scientific and institutional activities of European bodies.
For the first time, relations between science, the military, politics and economics are explored, in order to understand why the "Italy of records" - the nation which became the first country, following the USA and USSR, to place in orbit a national satellite, operated by an all-Italian team - failed to live up to this promising start.
The development of a national aerospace industry and of dedicated infrastructure, such as the equatorial launch base and telemetry and tracking ground stations, represents very constructive results from the pionneering phase of the Italian enterprise in space. Nonetheless, the lack of a coherent space policy prevented Italy from exploiting space activities in such a way that they led to industrial innovation and economic development.
Paru le : 28/05/2008
Thématique : Astronomie Astronomie
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Michelangelo De Maria Auteur : Lucia Orlando
Éditeur(s) :
Beauchesne
Collection(s) : Explorations
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-7010-1518-7
EAN13 : 9782701015187
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 294
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 1200 g
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