Mini satellites as fully automated laboratories to manufacture drugs among the stars, artificial intelligence and 5G for the telemedicine of the future, perhaps to guide complex interventions on a lunar basis from Earth: warm up the engines the new economy tied to space in Rome and Rome presented his projects on the second day of the New Space Economy Expoforum 2019, organized by Fiera di Roma and Space Foundation.
"Many substances of pharmacological interest, such as monoclonal antibodies, are difficult to crystallize on Earth, while microgravity conditions can offer a decisive improvement," noted Yossi Amin, director of the company SpacePharma, specialized in pharmacological research in microgravity conditions . We look to the search for the future, also considering the time when the International Space Station will have completed its operational life, said the general director of Kayser Italy, Alessandro Donati. On the horizon is the arrival of the new Space Space Shuttle of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Italian Space Agency (ASI) plays an important role.
"Space can offer us wonderful opportunities," said Western Australia's head of research, Peter Klinken. "The vast distances of the Australian territory have led to the development of technologies dedicated to remote control, from robotics to remote facial recognition to telemedicine services," he added. It is very likely, he said, that "these technologies could be crucial in the future exploration of the Moon and Mars".
Many Italian research groups have begun to explore the possible applications, such as that of Nicola Fazio at the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute of Bologna, that of the biochemists Alessandra Di Masi of the University of Roma Tre and Giuseppe Falini of the University of Bologna, by Mauro Grigioni of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the surgeon Francesco Musumeci of the San Camillo hospital in Rome. In Europe, finally, many surprises can come from graphene, said Vincenzo Palermo, deputy director of the Graphene Project of the European Commission.
