Bezos inspires new transports in Italy, Zaccheo meets Saccoccia

Italian transport could also change pace after the visionary suborbital flight made by billionaire Jeff Bezos. The President of the Transport Regulatory Authority, Nicola Zaccheo, and the President of the Italian Space Agency, Giorgio Saccoccia, met today, at the Agency’s headquarters in Rome, for “a discussion on the future prospects of transport through suborbital and space flights “. The day after the appointment at the ASI headquarters on national space scientific activities and the first flight of the Blue Origin Starship – which opened the future of tourist flights in space – the leaders of the Authority and the Agency discussed the ” obvious opportunities that will open up for their respective areas of competence “, the Italian Space Agency said. The President of Asi Saccoccia recalled “the innovative technological frontiers shared between space and the future civil transport, also citing issues such as materials and advanced propulsion, thermal control and flight and autonomous return techniques”. “The future – he said – will see an ever greater sharing of interests between space and transport with the affirmation of commercial suborbital flights and for this reason it will be increasingly important to establish a system with all the institutions involved”. Art Zaccheo wanted to underline that in the future “transport, in addition to the return of supersonic transatlantic flights, will see the affirmation of suborbital and space flights of passengers for commercial purposes. Their economic regulation will constitute one of the new and most exciting frontiers of activity. of Art “. In this context, Zaccheo noted that “cooperation with ASI will be fundamental for the exchange of know-how and for the technical synergies that will be required to deal with a picture profoundly modified by the real and concrete availability of new space technologies, of which recent experiences , like those of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin or Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, are a clear demonstration “.