Italian aerospace launcher company
Avio has placed at the disposal of Malaysia and the university
of Nairobi in Kenya its Vega C rocket carrier as part of the
Expo Dubai 2020's Space Week.
The event organized by Avio at the Italian Pavilion stresses
that speaking of space means dealing with the the Earth's
problems.
More is spoken of cooperation than of competition in the
conquest of space.
Avio gave Nairobi University and Malaysia a Vega C launch
together with UNOOSA, the United Nations agency for space
affairs, choosing them because they linked their space projects
to a message of peace
"Speaking of space.means dealing with our country and in order
to take care of our country we must cooperate," said Avio CEO
Giulio Ranzo, who backed the project proposed by UNOOSA Director
Simonetta di Pippo to broaden access to space.
Europeab Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano took part in the
event saying that the conquest of space brings benefits to our
planet, because it collects data and information that can then
be used for treating nerve diseases on Earth.
Parmitano added: "technology has many faces, and it is up to us
to generate technology that is sustainable, realising first of
all where we are in order to understand what elements are
sustainable".
But in the last 60 years the conquest of space has left its
mark, and a mass of space detritus risks causing accidents.
A lecturer at the Politecnico di Milano, Michelle Lavagna,
raised the problem and also proposed solutions to the congested
traffic around the global orbit, with its high risk of space
accidents, in a well-received address at the Pavilion.
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