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Beyond the Sky: Vatican to send Pope’s speech into space with hope

Pope Francis addresses the crowd during the Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, on March 26, 2023. | Fountain: AFP or licensors | Photographer: VINCENSO PINTO

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He Vatican will send a miniature digital book into space (“nanobook”) with a message of hope from Pope Francisco took place in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The project was illustrated this Monday during a press conference and aims to convey the words of the pontiff into space by putting “nanobookat an altitude of about 525 km.

papal space

He nanobook It will be launched into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which will launch on June 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA.

An electronic piece, barely 2 millimeters, will be sent to a rectangular satellite about thirty centimeters (CubeSat”) and was developed by students of the Polytechnic School of Turin (Italy).

Contains a moving speech Pope Francisco On March 27, 2020, in front of a huge, completely empty Plaza de San Pedro and in the incessant rain, the head of the Catholic Church called on a “feared and lost” world for solidarity and unity in the face of a pandemic.

It’s called “Spei Satelles” (“satellite of hope”, in Latin), a project with an undisclosed budget is being carried out jointly with VaticanItalian Space Agency and various Italian institutions.

The idea is to send this important speech “beyond land borders, so that through space it reaches as many women and men in difficulty as possible on our planet,” explained Giorgio Sacoccia, president of the Italian Space Agency.

This is an unprecedented initiative as the satellite will transmit a radio signal that can be detected by any radio amateur in the world, the promoters explained. (AFP)

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