8. Italy
Points – 11
With a budget of $1.8 billion, the Italian Space Agency has some pretty nice projects. Created in 1988, the government agency has launched several satellite missions, starting with BeppoSAX who wanted to check out how the Universe looks like in X-Ray.
The Italian Space Agency is also quite busy collaborating in various international space missions, including the Cassini-Huygens, next to NASA and the European Space Agency, and the Mars Express, as well as the Venus Express.
The agency is involved in the ISS program, a number of the station’s modules being built here.
