Fucino Space Centre

41°58′44″N 13°36′03″E / 41.9790°N 13.6007°E / 41.9790; 13.6007

Telespazio Spa
Company typePrivately held company joint venture
(Società per Azioni)
IndustryAerospace
Founded1965 (1965) (regular use)
Headquarters,
Italy
ServicesSatellite services
OwnerLeonardo (67%)
Thales Group (33%)
Number of employees
Approx. 250
Websitewww.telespazio.com/en/italy
Telescopic parabolic antennas in Fucino

The Fucino Space Centre is the largest teleport in the world for civilian uses used for the control of artificial satellites, for telecommunications and for hosting, television and network services multimedia. Located in the Fucino plain in Abruzzo within the municipal area of Ortucchio, near Avezzano (AQ), central-east Italy, it is named after the engineer Piero Fanti, first director of Telespazio, and managed by the same company consisting of two joint ventures, the Italian Leonardo (Finmeccanica) for 67% and the French Thales for the remaining 33%.[1][2]