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Visit to NTU Satellite Research Center

As part of the events related to the National Space Day which is celebrated on December 16 of each year, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Italian Embassy, ​​Rossella Gentile, visited the SaRC (Satellite Research Center) of NTU (Nanyang Technological University). Accompanying her was the Scientific Attaché, Nicola Bianchi. To welcome them was the Director of the SaRC, Lim Wee Seng.

The research center houses the mission control room of the orbiting satellites, the 6-metre diameter satellite antenna, the NTU laboratories dedicated to space and the S4TIN (Smart Small Satellite System Thaled in NTU) laboratories of Thales Alenia Space. All the components of the satellites that are assembled in Singapore are made in these laboratories. Before launching, the satellites are tested in dedicated vacuum, magnetic and thermal chambers. From 2011 to today, Singapore has launched a dozen of satellites, mainly picosatellites, nanosatellites and microsatellites, for studies of the Earth’s equatorial belt, the atmosphere, for communications, for propulsive missions (orbit adjustments). The Italian Space Agency has recently expressed an interest in a possible collaboration with Singapore in the satellite field and in the development of the related technology. The meeting was therefore a first opportunity to explore the possible areas of collaboration.

The meeting was attended by Simone Placidi, Director of SME Metasensing AP Pte Ltd which works on advanced radar technologies for space applications, and Davide Nejoumi, very young founder of the start-up Delta Space Leonis S.r.l. which makes nanosatellites, one of which will be in orbit in 2023 with Elon Musk’s Space X.