DECEMBER 20208 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSIN MY OPINIONSpace Industries and Environmental ImpactBy Fabrizio Poscente, Head of Mechanical Parts and Materials Engineering, Thales Alenia Space [EPA:HO]Over the last few years, the space industry has developed considerably, taking on an increasingly important role in our everyday lives.Starting as a high-technology scientific sector, aiming to explore the Solar system and the universe, it has gradually been transformed into a service industry to improve the quality of our lives.The efficient, accessible communication and exploration we have today, with the possibility of staying in contact in even the most remote corners of our beautiful planet, we owe to the communication satellites and their capacity to exchange an increasing amount of data in less time.But the space industry does not only allow us to communicate better and more quickly, but it also supplies technical solutions we use every day and regularly: I refer, for example, to simple stretch socks for shoes
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