SSA NEOCC inauguration

Located at ESRIN, ESA’s centre for Earth observation, the new SSA NEO Coordination Centre was formally inaugurated on 22 May 2013 by Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations, together with Augusto Cramarossa, Italian Delegate to the ESA Council, and Claudio Portelli, Italian Delegate to the SSA Programme, both of ASI, the Italian space agency. In this photo, Dr Detlef Koschny, Head of NEO activities in the SSA Programme office, makes a point.