ESA and the Italian space agency ASI sign an agreement at the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting (IMM18), in Madrid, Spain, to pursue cooperation concerning the future deployment of the novel Fly-Eye telescope to the site of Monte Mufara, Sicily. The high performance Fly-Eye telescope will be used to systematically and regularly survey the sky for the purpose of detecting asteroids approaching Earth and representing a threat of collision with our planet.
ESA’s Ministers in charge of space activities convened at IMM18 at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada, on 25 October 2018.
The Intermediate Ministerial Meeting is a milestone on the road to Space19+, ESA’s next Council at ministerial level which will be held in Seville, Spain, in November 2019.