{"id":6128,"date":"2026-09-18T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:22:47","slug":"strengthening-italy-kenya-cooperation-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2026\/09\/strengthening-italy-kenya-cooperation-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening Italy\u2013Kenya cooperation in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ambassador Vincenzo Del Monaco met Kenya Space Agency Director General Major General Hillary Kipkosgey and visited the KSA\u2019s Regional Centre for Earth Observation (CREO) in Nairobi, where they discussed opportunities to further strengthen Italy\u2013Kenya cooperation in the space sector, including Earth observation, satellite data and the development of new skills and applications.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The partnership between Italy and Kenya in space continues to open new avenues for research, innovation and capacity building. Looking ahead, Earth observation and space technologies can play an increasingly important role in supporting informed planning, environmental monitoring and socioeconomic development in Kenya.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">As Kenya\u2019s space ecosystem continues to grow, new opportunities are emerging for young people in science, engineering, data and entrepreneurship. Italy is committed to working with Kenyan partners to support skills development, innovation and the creation of new opportunities in the space economy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ambassador Vincenzo Del Monaco met Kenya Space Agency Director General Major General Hillary Kipkosgey and visited the KSA\u2019s Regional Centre for Earth Observation (CREO) in Nairobi, where they discussed opportunities to further strengthen Italy\u2013Kenya cooperation in the space sector, including Earth observation, satellite data and the development of new skills and applications. The partnership between [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnairobi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}