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The ‘Centro di Geodesia Spaziale’ (centre of space geodesy) of the ‘Agenzia Spaziale Italiana’, dedicated to Professor Giuseppe Colombo, is located in the municipal district of Matera, about 10 kilometres east of the town, on the western boundary with the ‘Murge’.

Opened in 1983 thanks to the joined effort of the ‘Piano Spaziale Nazionale’ of the ‘CNR’, ‘Regione Basilicata’ and the NASA, the CGS is a structure where about 100 people work nowadays.

Mainly devoted to the observation of the earth through space techniques (space geodesy and remote sensing), the CGS has recently been dealing with other fields too, in particular space robot technology and interplanetary missions.

It is one of the most important research structures in southern Italy.