Esa, the lady of satellites Simonetta Cheli: “So we will create a digital model of the earth”

At 15 he was collecting signatures for Amnesty international outside his high school in Florence, supporting the international vocation that has shaped his career. Simonetta Cheli, new director of the Earth Observation programs of the European Space Agency (ESA) born in Siena in 1963, at the age of 18 she flew to the USA to study at Yale. Now, after 33 years in Esa, his office from Paris moves to Frascati, to Esrin.