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Italian ASI: Giorgio Saccoccia will be the new president

The engineer is also highly respected by Roberto Battiston

The possibility that the engineer Giorgio Saccoccia will be appointed, these days, as the new President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) is increasingly concrete. The choice is up to the Minister of Education, University and Research Marco Bussetti who would not have given an official confirmation to the indiscretion, and by the dicastery -according to "Adnkronos"- they responded with a no comment...

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Rome, Italy, 03/22/2019 11:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

ReportItalian ASI. Benvenuti and Cinque appointed commissioners

The waiting for the decision of the Lazio Regional Administrative Court remains in the background

The indiscretions that the astrophysicist Piero Benvenuti, as commissioner of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the lawyer Giovanni Cinque sub-commissioner, have confirmed. In fact the same professor... more

AerospaceItalian ASI. Roberto Battiston. The era of the physics professor ends

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For a while AVIONEWS had reported findings on the legitimacy of the reassignment of Roberto Battiston as President of ASI (Italian Space Agency). The nomination for the second term fell in fact to political e... more

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