From January 2024, in 34 Italian cities, heat islands will be constantly monitored, that phenomenon that produces a warmer microclimate within urban areas: an analysis that will be valuable for local administrations, especially with the aim of identifying the priority areas where new trees can be planted and new green areas created. It will be possible thanks to Iride, one of the most important European Earth Observation satellite space programs, promoted by the Italian Government, financed with the Pnrr and implemented with the support of the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The announcement was made on the final day of the New Space Economy European Expoforum, the reference event in the space economy sector organized in Rome.
The last day also focused on the theme of the national strategy in the context of the ‘Space Economy’: the need emerged to expand what is now the political and national governance of space to adapt it to global European and international challenges, and we discussed what is a real change of era in space activities, which see satellites and launchers as instruments of economic and military warfare as well as terrestrial supremacy, in a context of confrontation between nations, states but also companies private.
The space economy, in fact, now plays a leading role: it is expected that, globally, the value of activities linked to the New Space Economy will reach 1,000 billion dollars by the end of the decade. In Italy, the sector has more than 300 companies, employment around 8,000 people and a turnover close to 2 billion. In the international context, Italy ranks as the third country at European level, after France and Germany, thanks to the government investments made so far.
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