What satellites do, how they are used, what their decisive role has been in the Ukrainian affair since the invasion of Crimea in 2014: these are some of the points that the book deals with. Most importantly, it recounts actual cases and little-known examples of how the United States and Russia have periodically gone to war against each other for the past decade, trying to sabotage each other's infrastructure in space, while China covertly watches and occasionally puts its foot down. In The Great Game of Satellites, Finucci uses unpublished sources and interviews to tell the story of the new gold rush in space, almost unbelievable and largely unknown outside the security community. A documented investigation, a non-specialist narrative that reveals the latest satellite technologies, once reserved for military and scientific research, now one of the most important businesses of the third millennium, with political and legal implications that were previously unthinkable.
Keynote speech: Setsuko Aoki, Keio University and Chiba Institute of Technology, National Committee on Space Policy, Cabinet Office. “Space as the source of security, safety, wealth and conflicts”
Discussion with the author of all the participants – USiena faculty and students.
Chair: Matteo Gerlini, USiena