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Italy has an important role in Swift's space mission

Rome, Italy - Its launch is foreseen for today

The satellite Swift is to be launched today: the operation conducted by Nasa in collaboration with Asi (Italian space agency) and Psarc (British council for astronomic and physic searches of the particles). "Thanks to Swift it would be possible to study for the first time what happens after a lightning" claimed Simona Di Filippo, responsible of the Observatory of the universe for Asi. In reality Swift...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 107861
Rome, Italy, 11/17/2004 14:30
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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