The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) took part as a partner in the 17th edition of the European Space Conference, focused on advancing Europe’s space ambitions. The conference was held in…
The IAI is part of a European consortium that brings together leading companies in the space sector for the EMISSARY project (December 2024-Marzo 2029). EMISSARY will enhance the acquisition of space…
IAI is conducting a study for the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia spaziale italiana – ASI) entitled: “Assessment and analysis of security-related aspects of ESA programmes, in relation to…
The Aeronautica Militare organised the second edition of the international AeroSpace Power Conference (#ASPC2025), titled “Fighting and Winning in the Sky beyond the Next Decade”, in Rome at La…
The initiative aims to provide European member states with a study and design of a new collaborative defence capability: an interoperable, resilient and scalable network of responsive space systems …
The project aims to stimulate the reflection on the overwhelming strategic importance of the space domain, the consequent implications for the country-system, and the need to protect its assets and…
In the confrontation between powers, space has played an essential role in the past and strategic competition continues to characterize the space environment, perceived by world powers as the "higher…
The increasing use of space for security and defence purposes highlights the strategic dimension of the sector. The project analysed the global strategic competition in space and the implications for…
The IAI, as part of a Consortium, launched the SPACEWAYS project. The European Commission selected a consortium of major European launcher and satellite manufacturers, operators and service providers…
Starting 1 July 2015, the Instituto Affari Internazionali will be involved in the GovSatCom feasibility study project. The project, which is financed by the European Defence Agency …
The project aimed at mapping requirements and opportunities for cooperation between EU Member States in the space sector concerning the Arctic region. First, the study defined some deployement…
The project analyzed how the state policies of the main space powers have influenced the business and the performance of the European satellite telecommunication industry. In addition, the research…
This study, realized for the European Parliament, aims at identifying a number of strategies to strengthen the European role in the space field. In this context, the first section is devoted to…
The project’s aim is to analyze the current mechanisms of governance in the European launcher sector and to define alternative options and models ensuring to Europe a competitive, reliable and secure…
The goal of G-SEXTANT was to consolidate a portfolio of Earth Observation products and services that support the geospatial information (geoinformation) needs of the EU external action.
Focusing on…
IAI cooperates with Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) on the initiative Cyber+Space Series, launched in the UK with the active support of Finmeccanica. It follows up the…
Research project aimed at defining governance models for the security dimension of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) as well as the role of European Union Satellite Centre …
The main objective of the project is to identify potential innovative solutions for the realization of a global satellite architecture providing communication services that respond to the technical…
The study, prepared for the European Parliament, provides an overview of Galileo development and management from the outset until today. First proposed at the end of the 1990s, the programme has…
The study, prepared for the European Parliament, includes a twofold analysis. First, an analysis of CSDP missions and their operational context to be matched with the main space-based applications,…
Project aimed at the development of space-based radar technology for the detection, identification, and tracking of moving objects. IAI has a role in defining security scenarios in which such…
Objective of the C-Space project is the development of a comprehensive approach for an efficient and multi-sector (security, science, industry, etc.) European space policy:
- assessment of current…
Within the context of the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiative for security, G-MOSAIC research project aims at developing services for the provision of geo-spatial…
The study was commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) from a consortium led by FRS (Fondation pour la Récherche Stratégique, Paris). The study aimed to analyse a future European Space…
STACCATO - a follow up activity of SeNTRE - was a European funded supporting activity under the Preparatory Action for Security Research (PASR).
With the view to map the competences of…
The study, commissioned by the Subcommittee Security and Defence of the European Parliament to IAI and FRS (Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris), aimed to analyse space capabilities and…
This programme aims to analyse and develop satellite services for security applications within the framework of the third part of the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) programme…
This 15-month project, coordinated by Eads Astrium in the framework of the “Preparatory Action in the field of Security Research” - Pasr 2004, shown the benefits that would derive from the use of…
Following a 2002 research project on the relations between the European Security and Defence Policy and the space sector (see IAI Quaderni, n.15), the IAI conducted an international study on…
This research project examined the prospects for adopting space technology in implementing the European security and defence policy in the framework of transatlantic cooperation. During the first…