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The nanobook with the Pope's Statio Orbis will go into space

2023-03-27T13:30:49.343Z


(HANDLE) The words of the Statio Orbis, the message of hope launched in the midst of the pandemic by Pope Francis, will soon go into space. The nanosatellite (cubesat) Spei satelles, born from the cooperation between the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the National Research Council (Cnr), the Dicastery for Communication and the Turin Polytechnic, will be put into orbit on June 10 from the Californian base of V


The words of the Statio Orbis, the message of hope launched in the midst of the pandemic by Pope Francis, will soon go into space.

The nanosatellite (cubesat) Spei satelles, born from the cooperation between the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the National Research Council (Cnr), the Dicastery for Communication and the Turin Polytechnic, will be put into orbit on June 10 from the Californian base of Vandenberg in California with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and will radio excerpts of the text to Earth.

"On the evening of March 27, 2020 in that dramatic situation of the pandemic, in which we were frightened by incomprehensible events, Pope Francis went up alone to pray for humanity. On that occasion - said Msgr. Lucio Ruiz, Secretary of the Dicastery for Communications - the whole world stopped, there was no difference between believers and non-believers".

A historic moment that went down in history as the Statio Orbis and collected in a book given to the press with the title of 'Why are you afraid?

Have you still no faith?'

which has now been transformed by researchers from the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology of the Cnr into a nanobook, a chip that collects all the information transcribed in bits.

The nanobook will be placed on board a 30-centimeter cubesat satellite by a group of 25 girls and boys coordinated by Sabrina Corpino, director of the Systems and Technologies laboratory for Aerospace Research Polytechnic of Turin, and launched into space on 10 June by the Vandenberg American base.

"For us who work in space - said the president of ASI, Giorgio Saccoccia - this project has a profound meaning and it was natural to make a contribution because for us space has always had a meaning of peace".

The small satellite will remain in orbit around the Earth for at least 6 months and will transmit excerpts of the text on radio waves that can also be listened to by simple amateur systems.

Soon it will also be possible to register online to be able to 'get on board' the satellite by registering one's name "but only by offering the moral commitment to do some work of mercy on Earth", concluded Fr Luca Peyron, Director of the Service for the Digital Apostolate Archdiocese of Turin.

Source: ansa

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