SENER Aeroespacial and Gilmour Space are working together on an Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) for the Eris launch vehicle. The AFTS is a smart Hardware/Software unit with autonomous decision-making capability responsible for aborting a flight if any anomaly is identified. The AFTS establishes a new paradigm for launcher operations, being of the highest criticality and built upon SENER Aeroespacial’s experience in NAVIGA, the navigation unit for VEGA-C
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Last January, INVENTIA was visited by the Prime Minister and Getafe’s Mayoress at its Getafe facilities, as a PYME that works in R+D+I projects subsidized by CDTI, with the support of Science & Innovation Ministry, and financed by Next Generation EU funds. Disruptive technologies will be developed for transversal applications in aeronautic & space industry, driven to structural components made by composite materials and to the flexible integration using robotics and advanced automation.
HISPASAT and Ovzon, a Swedish connectivity services company, have extended their agreement to jointly offer the high-capacity portable broadband solution in North America, which has been provided in Europe and Latin America since 2019. This expansion will allow its customers to have a connectivity solution that includes Ovzon T6, the latest generation of Ovzon portable terminals, and the high performance satellite capacity of HISPASAT satellites.
URDANETA is SATLANTIS’ first proprietary satellite: a full-solution satellite programmed for various value-added Earth Observation applications in areas such as precision agriculture, land mapping, border security, marine/coastal ecosystem, energy and environmental monitoring. By incorporating an iSIM-90 imager (very high resolution) on board a CubeSat sensor bus, it will enhance the end-users’ analytics capabilities. URDANETA is scheduled to fly in June 2022.
Regarding the payload and the complete satellite, including the CDR elements of the Pacis-3 partnership project with ESA. The reliability of the design and technical capabilities of the Hisdesat satellite system is confirmed and the integration and manufacturing activities of all the flight elements, both of the Eurostar NEO platform and of the payload, begin. SPAINSAT NG satellites guarantee the continuity of secure communications services. Its operational useful life will be 15 years, remaining in service until 2039.
STAR3 presents at the Spanish Small Satellites International Forum the results obtained in the development of new structural components using additive manufacturing technologies. Within the framework of this project, funded under the ESA GSTP program, TECNALIA has manufactured an optical bench in silicon carbide, a material of high dimensional stability, using the binder jetting process, which is characterized by drastically reducing the lead time of this type of components.
Thales Alenia Space Agency awarded GTD the contract for the Lunar Gateway’s International Habitat Application Software. The completion of this work will suppose an important milestone in the development of the station with in the framework of future lunar missions. GTD trusts that the exploitation of the Lunar Gateway will stimulate several industries worldwide, encouraging European space competitiveness.
PLD Space has closed a Series B funding round of €25 million. The operation, led by Arcano Partners, Aciturri and CDTI, brings the total capital raised by PLD Space to more than €45 million and will allow the company to advance in its upcoming milestones of value: the launch of its MIURA 1 suborbital rocket at 2022 from El Arenosillo, MIURA 5 orbital vehicle manufacturing and its launch in 2024 from French Guiana.
INSTER will supply Telefónica with new mobile satellite communications terminals for the provision of digital services on the railways. The company has a wide portfolio of “communications on the move” for different working bands (X, Ku, Ka and dual bands) and uses (terrestrial, railway and aeronautical). It has also completed important projects for military and civil applications. With this new project, INSTER consolidates its position as a reference company in this field to which it contributes its technological leadership and national content.
El año 2022 comenzaba con la aprobación, por parte del Consejo de Ministros, de la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional, el marco de referencia de la Política de Seguridad Nacional, que contempla en su interior la creación de la Agencia Espacial Española.La creación de una agencia espacial nacional es una antigua reclamación del sector y una noticia que ya se adelantó a mediados del año pasado, pero que, con la salida de Pedro Duque, exministro de Ciencia e Investigación, del Gobierno parecía quedar parado. Sin embargo, en la celebración del 2nd Space & Industrial Economy 5.0 Sevilla Virtual Summit en diciembre,…
