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Agencia Espacial Española. The Agencia Espacial Española (AEE; [3] Spanish Space Agency) is an agency of the Spanish government responsible for the Spanish space program. The agency was officially announced on 27 May 2021 [4][5] and it became operational in 20 April 2023. [6][7] This new agency aims to group in a single body all the space ...
Website. www.esa.int. The European Space Agency (ESA) [a] is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration. [8] With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023, the ESA was founded in 1975.
The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), in Spanish and officially Complejo de Comunicaciones de Espacio Profundo de Madrid, is a satellite ground station located in Robledo de Chavela, Spain, and operated by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA). [1] Part of the Deep Space Network (DSN) of NASA 's Jet Propulsion ...
The Catalan Space Agency (Catalan: Agència Espacial de Catalunya; AEC) is a space agency in Catalonia, an autonomous community of Spain. [1] Founded in 2021, it successfully launched two nanosatellites : Enxaneta on March 22, 2021, and Menut on January 3, 2023.
Space career. ESA reserve astronaut. Selection. 2022 ESA Group. Sara García Alonso (born 1989) is a Spanish cancer researcher and reserve ESA astronaut. Since 2019, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre. In 2022, she was chosen as a reserve astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps.
Cebreros Station. / 40.4528°N 4.3676°W / 40.4528; -4.3676. Cebreros Station (also known as DSA 2 or Deep Space Antenna 2) is a European Space Agency, ESTRACK radio antenna station for communication with spacecraft, located about 10 km east of Cebreros and 90 km from Madrid, Spain, operated by the European Space Operations Centre and ...
Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as minister of Science from 2018 to 2021 and member of the Congress of Deputies, representing Alicante, from May 2019 until February 2020. Since December 2023, he is the chair of Hispasat.
March 12, 2012 [1] Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría on May 30, 1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; [2] a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his ...