Agreement signed: Selargius opens its doors to the Italian Space Agency

The process is concluded: with the signing of the economic agreement, Selargius officially opens its doors to the Italian Space Agency. "Now we can finally say with pride that our municipal area is ready to welcome the only Sardinian branch of ASI, the third in Italy", explains Mayor Gigi Concu.

The spotlight is on the Cuccuru Angius area, where the bet of the municipal administration - and the millionaire investments that have followed over time - have made it possible to lay the foundations for the creation of a scientific center of international importance which, thanks to the convention just signed , will allow Selargius and more generally the whole island to become a world reference point. "We are talking about research activities in the field of human and robotic space exploration, carried out - comments Gigi Concu - by ASI scientists in collaboration with the universities and the scientific community at the" Sardinia Deep Space Antenna Research Center ", which as by agreement we have decided to grant free loan to ASI ". Selargius will thus host a new prestigious headquarters ready to join that of Matera and the central base of Rome: "An unmissable opportunity for all of us, which will certainly also have important employment effects on our territory, in addition to the evident prestige of which we cannot than to be proud ".

In detail: as written in the document just signed by both parties, the Municipality undertakes to grant - on free loan - the building called "Training Center" to the Italian Space Agency, following the adaptation to the logistical needs of the itself, to be assigned to the headquarters of the Italian Space Agency called Sardinia Deep Space Antenna Research Center. All to be carried out through a series of complementary works whose total cost the ASI will return once the works are completed.

By the summer, the Space Agency scientists should take their places in the Selargina base, thus joining the colleagues of the National Institute of Astrophysics who have already been operating in the Cuccuru Angius area for some time.