The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and Avio S.p.A. (Avio) join forces at the 74th UN General Assembly to announce an agreement to cooperate on providing institutions from UN Member States, in particular developing countries, with the opportunity to apply to use, free of charge, satellite slots for 1UCubesat or aggregates on a planned launch vehicle scheduled for October 2020.

Giulio Ranzo, CEO of Avio, about the outcome of the Vega flight VV15.

Colleferro, 11 March 2017 - The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, paid a visit today to the Avio production plant in Colleferro (Rome) welcomed by Avio CEO Giulio Ranzo. The meeting was also attended by Luce Fabreguettes, Senior Vice President – Missions at Arianespace, Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director of Earth Observation and Roberto Battiston, President of ASI (Italian Space Agency).