LARES 2 mission: the consolidation of Italian heritage in laser ranged satellites - OHB-Italia

Precisely three years after LARES2 was released into orbit by the first ESA VEGA-C, (live from the Control Room, the best place on the Earth where you can experience the thrill of Space)
the paper
“LARES 2 mission: the consolidation of Italian heritage in laser ranged satellites”
about the mission development and first scientific data acquisistion
was just released by hashtagActaAstronautica hashtagElsevier.

The document is available at this link,
https://lnkd.in/de8ZCh7X
free for download for 50 days.

Thank you to all the colleagues from Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, European Space Agency – ESA, OHB Italia S.p.A., Sapienza Università di Roma, INFN who contributed in this important mission.
It doubled the success of LARES launched in 2012, so reinforcing Italian leadership in satellite hashtaglaserranging.
A long national heritage, every day consolidated by the work done at the ASI Matera Laser Ranging Observatory hashtagMLRO.

Ready to extend it also to planetary exploration