Italian Trade Agency · National Pavilion

Italy at BSX

Italy's national showcase of aerospace innovation and craftsmanship.

Engineered in Italy.

For six decades Italy has built for orbit with the patience of its workshops and the ambition of its explorers. In 1964 it became the third nation to operate its own satellite — and it has never stopped reaching.

What travels to Bengaluru is not a slogan. It is a discipline: alloy chosen for the cold of the void, seams measured to the micron, deployments rehearsed a thousand times before they are trusted to the dark.

Quiet ambition, precisely built.

In the detail,
the discipline.

01Engraved panel seamsTolerances held to the micron across every titanium face.
02Gold thermal blanketingMulti-layer insulation that holds temperature through the orbital night.
03Articulating antenna arraySteerable links tuned for ground stations a continent apart.

The sum of
exact parts.

A single craft, assembled from the best of a nation. The Italian Pavilion brings together the companies, capabilities and heritage behind six decades in orbit.

3nation to operate its own satellite — 1964

60years of Italian spaceflight heritage

7companies at the Italian Pavilion

6mission domains represented