ITALIAN MISSION
02-10-2024 by Leni Frau
Yesterday morning, Adolfo Urso, Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, visited the Luigi Broglio Space Centre in Ngomeni, near Malindi, as part of his mission to Kenya to promote cooperation between the two countries, especially in the area of space and technology policies, in the context of the Mattei Plan for Africa.
These are ambitious projects, those of the Italian government to relaunch the space base wanted by the unforgettable scientist who sixty years ago gave rise to the dream turned into reality of a platform for satellite launches in Africa, along the Equator line. The first satellites in African history were launched from Malindi.
In 2024, the promise that Urso, on behalf of the Meloni government, and the Minister of Defence, Sopian Tuya, have made to each other is to work together with their respective space agencies to bring back to life the launch base, which saw the last satellite launch from Ungwana Bay in 1988.
Not only that, in Urso's words, the Italian Space Agency ‘could also train the first Kenyan, and therefore African, astronaut in history, in the same way that Italian astronauts are trained today’.
Urso and Tuya then inaugurated the ‘Luigi Broglio Space Museum’, with an exhibition on the Professor produced by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Kenya, ASI and KSA and curated by Freddie del Curatolo.
As reported by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Urso was accompanied by the president of the Italian Space Agency (Asi), General Franco Federici, military advisor to the Prime Minister and secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Space, a delegation of the main Italian companies in the aerospace sector (Avio, Leonardo, Telespazio), and the delegate for Aerospace of Confindustria, Giorgio Marsiaj.
The re-launch of the Ngomeni space centre is excellent news not only for the collaboration between Italy and Kenya, but also for the creation of new jobs and opportunities for Italian and Kenyan service-providing companies.
(Photo courtesy of MIMIT)
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