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.

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.

The final event of the “New Generation Builders – Where Ideas Meet Purpose” program took place on March 10 at the Acquario Romano. The initiative brought together 80 colleagues from across the Space Division: Leonardo, Telespazio, and e-GEOS.

Telespazio, a Leonardo Group company, is among the participants selected by NASA under the NASA’s Artemis II Orion One-Way Doppler Measurements Tracking initiative, dedicated to radio-tracking activities for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission of the Artemis program, which will see the Orion spacecraft perform an approximately ten-day test flight around the Moon.