Our Vision
“Near Space” characterizes the outpost of the so-called Fourth Environment, the region that goes from the Earth’s surface to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where for over 50 years mankind operated the most and where the new civil aerospace industry will focus. But “Near Space” also means a space closer to human beings, a new future environmental component of human life. It is on these principles that our vision for a Cislunar City, a design platform for the space habitat of the future, is based.
LATEST NEWS
CNS Thesis Award “The Cislunar City”
The Center for Near Space of the Italian Institute for the Future has established in 2019 an annual award dedicated to university students to stimulate them to their reflections on the expansion of humanity in space that has already begun and that will see in the very near future the development of ordinary life in…
Scarica il volume gratuito “Scienza e società verso il 2030”
L’Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile è un programma d’azione sottoscritto nel settembre 2015 dai 193 Paesi membri dell’ONU. L’Agenda ingloba 17 Obiettivi per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) che i governi si sono impegnati a raggiungere nell’arco temporale di 15 anni e un totale di 169 “target” o traguardi. La conferenza Between…
Center for Near Space and the Moon Village Association signed Memorandum of Understanding
On Saturday, May 23, 2020 leaders of the Italian Institute for the Future (IIF)/Center for Near Space (CNS) and the Moon Village Association (MVA) finalized an historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to further their shared goals concerning the exploration, development and eventual settlement of Earth’s Moon and cis-Lunar space. Mr. Gennaro (Rino) Russo, Vice President…
3-D Printing: a forefront technology for Space
designnews.com Additive manufacturing technology, also called additive layer manufacturing or 3-D Printing, is a forefront technology enabling manufacturing of tools as well minor items on Earth by adding material layer after layer, giving the desired shape to fulfill the intended scope. Applications of 3-D printing technology is also beneficial to producing, assembling and aggregating…
Origins and aims of the Center for Near Space
Presentation held at the opening event of the Center for Near Space – Reggia di Caserta, July 14, 2015. Download
CNS: Organization and Strategic Lines
Presentation held at the opening event of the Center for Near Space – Reggia di Caserta, July 14, 2015. Scarica la presentazione English version
Hyplane: Challenges for Space Tourism and Business Transportation
A preliminary study on a small hypersonic airplane for a long duration space tourism mission is presented: Hyplane. It is also consistent with a point-to-point medium range (6000 km) hypersonic trip, in the frame of the “urgent business travel” market segment. Main idea is to transfer technological solutions developed for aeronautical and space atmospheric re-entry systems to the…
Status and Perspectives of Hypersonic Systems and Technologies with Emphasis on the Role of Sub-Orbital Flight
The relevance and the main features of Hypersonic Flight are shortly presented and discussed. A synthetic overview of the few realizations and of many studies, projects and technological demonstrators offers opportunity of point out many interesting aspects. Then the more actual realizations and studies are considered, with particular attention to the new sector of small…
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PROGRAMS
NearSpaceExplo
Aim of the project is to stimulate institutions, research centers, industries and individuals to invest in design and technological development for both scientific and business purposes.
OrbiTecture
Aim of the project is to study spatial infrastructural architectures in terms of feasibility, conceptual design, problems related to construction (assembly) and operational scenarios.
JumpinFuture
The project promotes the commercialization of the use of general aviation aircraft for flying campaigns with maneuvers similar to small parabolic flights to familiarize the public with space tourism.
CelestiaSydera
The project deals with the organization of dissemination initiatives, training, fundraising and partnerships with other communities active or interested in the space sector.
EduSpace
The project deals with training activities aimed primarily at school students to promote a spatial culture and encourage young people’s access to space sector.
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