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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 powers of the General State ...
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. Its 2024 annual budget was €7.8 billion. [9][5]
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.
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.
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 career, presently ...
Diana Trujillo. Lady Diana Trujillo Pomerantz (born 1983) [1] is a Colombian -American [2] aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She currently leads the engineering team at JPL responsible for the robotic arm of the Perseverance rover. [3][4] On February 18, 2021, Trujillo hosted the first ever Spanish-language NASA ...
Agencia Espacial Española: 739 2023 [173] South Korea: Korea Aerospace Research Institute: 701 2021 [174] United Kingdom: UK Space Agency: 604 2021 [175] Canada: Canadian Space Agency: 460 2019 [176] Algeria: Algerian Space Agency: 394 2020 [177] Belgium: Interfederal Space Agency of Belgium 260 2020 [178] Switzerland: Swiss Space Office: 177 ...