Vittorio Colao, Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition, visited the Matera Space Hub

09 September 2022

Vittorio Colao, Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition with responsibility for Aerospace, today visited the Matera Space Hub, which combines the historic home of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the e-GEOS Space Centre, a joint venture ASI and Telespazio, part of Leonardo Group. 

The President of Basilicata Region, Vito Bardi, was also present for the visit. Guests were welcomed by Giuseppe Bianco, Head of the ASI Space Research Unit, Paolo Minciacchi, CEO of e-GEOS and Director of Geoinformation Business Line of Telespazio, and Vincenza Luceri, Head of the e-GEOS Space Centre.

The Matera Space Centre, covering an area of around 100,000 square metres and with eight operational antennas, is one of southern Italy’s most important facilities for research, development and technology transfer.

This Centre works in space geodesy, geoinformation and Earth observation services, free space quantum telecommunications, ‘space debris’ tracking and time and frequency metrology.

Other News & Stories

18.05.2026
LarioSpace 2026 will be held from 27 September to 1 October

The fourth edition of LarioSpace, an event dedicated to the Space Economy, will take place over five days in 2026, from Sunday 27 September to Thursday 1 October 2026, with a further strengthened collaboration between Involve Space, the event organiser, and Telespazio, a Leonardo G roup company, which has hosted LarioSpace since 2024.

06.05.2026
Greenerwave and Telespazio France sign strategic agreement to distribute multi-orbit, low-power and sovereign satcom terminals in europe

Telespazio France, a Leonardo group company, and Greenerwave, a French deeptech company, announce the signing of a strategic agreement aimed at deploying and distributing Greenerwave’s multi-orbit, energy-efficient and sovereign SATCOM terminals across the European defense and government markets.

05.05.2026
Open Innovation in the space sector: Leonardo and Telespazio honour the winners of the seven edition of #T-Tec

The award ceremony for the seventh edition of #T-TeC was held today in Rome, at the headquarters of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The contest is an Open Innovation competition organised by Leonardo and Telespazio to foster technological innovation in the space sector among the younger generation of students and researchers from universities around the world.

30.04.2026
40 years ago, Italy’s first connection to the Internet thanks to the antennas of the Fucino space Centre

On April 30, 1986, Italy joined the global network that in the following years would become the Internet for the first time. The connection was made possible thanks to the key role of the Fucino space Centre, whose antennas carried the signal that connected the country with the United States.

Read more
18.05.2026
LarioSpace 2026 will be held from 27 September to 1 October

The fourth edition of LarioSpace, an event dedicated to the Space Economy, will take place over five days in 2026, from Sunday 27 September to Thursday 1 October 2026, with a further strengthened collaboration between Involve Space, the event organiser, and Telespazio, a Leonardo G roup company, which has hosted LarioSpace since 2024.

06.05.2026
Greenerwave and Telespazio France sign strategic agreement to distribute multi-orbit, low-power and sovereign satcom terminals in europe

Telespazio France, a Leonardo group company, and Greenerwave, a French deeptech company, announce the signing of a strategic agreement aimed at deploying and distributing Greenerwave’s multi-orbit, energy-efficient and sovereign SATCOM terminals across the European defense and government markets.

05.05.2026
Open Innovation in the space sector: Leonardo and Telespazio honour the winners of the seven edition of #T-Tec

The award ceremony for the seventh edition of #T-TeC was held today in Rome, at the headquarters of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The contest is an Open Innovation competition organised by Leonardo and Telespazio to foster technological innovation in the space sector among the younger generation of students and researchers from universities around the world.

30.04.2026
40 years ago, Italy’s first connection to the Internet thanks to the antennas of the Fucino space Centre

On April 30, 1986, Italy joined the global network that in the following years would become the Internet for the first time. The connection was made possible thanks to the key role of the Fucino space Centre, whose antennas carried the signal that connected the country with the United States.

Read more

Receive the latest updates from Telespazio

Register for the News Alert service