ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We need to develop a European policy that allows our continent to compete fully in the new spatial dimension, in which Italy is increasingly playing a central role, from lunar missions to Earth observation, from launchers to satellites.” In an interview with the newspaper MF, the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso.
“If we want Europe to become a real space power of the 21st century, this ambition must be translated into concrete, autonomous and competitive capacities – explains Urso. This means a stronger industrial base, able to compete globally. We hope that the Commission will share the need to support the process of creating European industrial actors with the dimensions, technological capabilities and competitiveness required by the global market. In the meantime, we supported French friends. I met seven times in a few months with Minister Baptiste, the last at the Fucino Space Centre, and the comparison was constant. We are ready to contribute, both as institutions and as an entrepreneurial ecosystem.”.
“Italy has proven since the beginning of the space adventure to have the capacity to access the Space and in 1964 launched, the first European actor, its artificial satellite in orbit. Since then we have strengthened this capacity, both in the national and in the European context – the minister emphasizes -. Today our Avio provides the Vega family carriers, under the Esa flag, and also contributes substantially to the French carrier Ariane 6. European autonomy must therefore be credible, economically sustainable and globally competitive. It must preserve a sufficient number of industrial and technological capacities, while guaranteeing Member States reliable and independent access to space. And the success of the small German launcher Spectrum by Isar Aerospace, which started in recent days from the spaceport of Andoya in Norway, which I visited a few months ago, is a further step forward in this direction. With Norwegian colleague Cecilie Myrseth and German colleague Dorothee Bar, we will also meet again in Paris.”.
For Urso “the great advantage of our aerospace industry is to have great actors, Leonardo “in primis”, but also pmi that strengthen the industrial chain, making it resilient and innovative. It is no coincidence that the Italian space sector is growing throughout the national territory, from North to South, with 16 regional aerospace districts. Our task – he adds – is to strengthen it, providing funding at European level (see the success of the use of the Pnrr funds, all committed in the expected time). The same national law on space, approved in recent months and gradually implemented, provides for a Fund for the economy of space, aimed above all to stimulate and grow startups and small enterprises”.
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