Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ROME1432
2007-06-28 17:09:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER RAISES ALPHA MAGNETIC
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 001432
SIPDIS
NOFORN
SIPDIS
NASA/OER (JOHN HALL),STATE FOR G, EUR/WE AND OES/SAT,
PARIS FOR NASA EUROPEAN REP (MILLER)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/27/2017
TAGS: TSPA PREL KSCA NASA IT
SUBJECT: ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER RAISES ALPHA MAGNETIC
SPECTROMETER WITH PRESIDENT BUSH
Classified By: A/DCM DAVID PEARCE, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 001432
SIPDIS
NOFORN
SIPDIS
NASA/OER (JOHN HALL),STATE FOR G, EUR/WE AND OES/SAT,
PARIS FOR NASA EUROPEAN REP (MILLER)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/27/2017
TAGS: TSPA PREL KSCA NASA IT
SUBJECT: ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER RAISES ALPHA MAGNETIC
SPECTROMETER WITH PRESIDENT BUSH
Classified By: A/DCM DAVID PEARCE, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4.
2. (C/NF) During President Bush's June 9 meeting in Rome,
Prime Minister Romano Prodi raised the Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer (aka anti-matter spectrometer - AMS) experiment,
saying that the GOI hoped the AMS would be carried on the
planned October Space Shuttle flight, and expressing concern
that the U.S. might cancel the launch. We understand that
the Italian Deputy Chief of Mission also raised AMS recently
in Washington.
3. (C/NF) The Italian Space Agency (ASI),which is involved
only marginally in the AMS experiment, has been aware for
approximately a year that NASA had determined that there was
no possibility for the AMS to be manifested on the remaining
Space Shuttle flights before the Shuttle is retired in 2010.
AMS's fate was discussed on June 1 during NASA Deputy
Administrator Shana Dale's meeting with the new ASI
President, Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, who reacted with
understanding when she confirmed NASA's difficult decision,
which was based on the agency's priorities to retire the
Shuttle while also meeting U.S. commitments to international
partners to complete construction of the International Space
Station (ISS). We also understand that Bignami did not raise
AMS during his June 19 meeting with Administrator Griffin.
We therefore consider it probable that the impetus behind
Prodi's action comes from the Ministry of Universities and
Research and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics
(INFN),which provided Italy's $312 million contribution to
the experiment.
4. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Department and NASA, please
provide points for the Embassy to reply to the Prime
Minister, including, if appropriate, information on possible
NASA non-Shuttle or other non-NASA flight alternatives for
the AMS instrument. END ACTION REQUEST.
Spogli
SIPDIS
NOFORN
SIPDIS
NASA/OER (JOHN HALL),STATE FOR G, EUR/WE AND OES/SAT,
PARIS FOR NASA EUROPEAN REP (MILLER)
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/27/2017
TAGS: TSPA PREL KSCA NASA IT
SUBJECT: ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER RAISES ALPHA MAGNETIC
SPECTROMETER WITH PRESIDENT BUSH
Classified By: A/DCM DAVID PEARCE, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D)
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4.
2. (C/NF) During President Bush's June 9 meeting in Rome,
Prime Minister Romano Prodi raised the Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer (aka anti-matter spectrometer - AMS) experiment,
saying that the GOI hoped the AMS would be carried on the
planned October Space Shuttle flight, and expressing concern
that the U.S. might cancel the launch. We understand that
the Italian Deputy Chief of Mission also raised AMS recently
in Washington.
3. (C/NF) The Italian Space Agency (ASI),which is involved
only marginally in the AMS experiment, has been aware for
approximately a year that NASA had determined that there was
no possibility for the AMS to be manifested on the remaining
Space Shuttle flights before the Shuttle is retired in 2010.
AMS's fate was discussed on June 1 during NASA Deputy
Administrator Shana Dale's meeting with the new ASI
President, Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, who reacted with
understanding when she confirmed NASA's difficult decision,
which was based on the agency's priorities to retire the
Shuttle while also meeting U.S. commitments to international
partners to complete construction of the International Space
Station (ISS). We also understand that Bignami did not raise
AMS during his June 19 meeting with Administrator Griffin.
We therefore consider it probable that the impetus behind
Prodi's action comes from the Ministry of Universities and
Research and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics
(INFN),which provided Italy's $312 million contribution to
the experiment.
4. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Department and NASA, please
provide points for the Embassy to reply to the Prime
Minister, including, if appropriate, information on possible
NASA non-Shuttle or other non-NASA flight alternatives for
the AMS instrument. END ACTION REQUEST.
Spogli