La Gazzetta di Messelia

Parthenopean Space Minister Wraps Up Working Visit
Marta Pezzaloni

Launch of the Cavallo IV

Suderia. Giulia Ardon, Minister for Technology and Space from Parthenopias, finished a comprehensive working visit to Sartoria, which culminated with a set of meetings in the Suderia Space Centre.

Minister Ardon, who has served in the position since 2000, started her visit in Messelia by holding meetings with Space Councillor Caruso and Military Councillor Alamanni, with the goal of discussing the current state of science cooperation between Sartoria and Parthenopias, and considering possible steps to bolster it in the near future. She also held a meeting with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Science and Technology Committee, who presented her with a Distinguished Service Medal for her long career in the field of science and technology.

She then traveled to Chierana University, where she attended the keynote speech of Space Councillor Caruso as part of the 2018 Lecture Series. She then joined the Councillor on the stage, where they took questions from the audience regarding space policy. Ms. Ardon then visited the Claudio Rossi Observatory, where she signed an agreement that allows for the exchange of Sartorian and Parthenopean astronomers at the Rossi Observatory, and at similar facilities managed by the Space Office. Councillor Caruso hailed it as "an agreement that has fantastic implications for our continued scientific development".

Ms Ardon finished her visit at the Suderia Space Centre, where she was given a tour of the facilities, and attended the launch of the Cavallo IV, a solar orbiter that will study the heliosphere. A joint project between the Space Office and the Parthenopean Ministry for Technology and Space, the initial mission is expected to last a year, with the possibility of extensions, depending on the evolving conditions of the orbiter. Ms Ardon indicated that "this probe shows that the friendship between our two nations reaches, quite literally, all the way to the stars".

[30 January 2018]