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The Italian Space Agency (ASI) plays a key role in the filfilment of space missions, contributing to the scientific, technological and economic progress of our country. The agency accomplishes space experiments by collaborating with scientific and industrial entities, supporting them to the realization of new products able to achieve unprecedeted results as the fundamental information on the birth and evolution of the universe collected during the last two decades. The presentation describes the X-ray technologies developed by the synergy between the Italian Space Agency and its principal collaborators, which brought to the main scientific results achieved over the years toghether with the last advances addressed to the next astrophysic missions.