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July 29, 2026
Hisdesat's customers include the Armed Forces, government bodies and authorised allied nations; the cabinet briefing did not specify the loan amount.
July 28, 2026
An exceptional service, never before deployed during a real emergency in Spain. It is limited to sending and receiving SMS, with no internet access.
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By: Hispaviación editorial staff Photo: Airbus The choice of the SGoSat ESA technology from Inster and Tecnobit (Grupo Oesía) for the Eurofighter LTE programme goes beyond a commercial deal; it…
28-07-2026 Grupo Oesía and Airbus Defence and Space have signed, at the aerospace multinational’s facilities in Getafe, the strategic contract for the design and development…
A delegation from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Miciu) visited on Friday the 24th the headquarters of Emxys, a company specialising in the design and manufacture of…
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July 27, 2026
TUPPER LAKE, NY — Indra Group of Spain said its space division, which since January has… The post Indra Group: Space division is on track to reach $455M in revenue this year appeared first on Space…
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on 26 July, shows a zoomed-in view over ESA's Cebreros ground station, which lies within the areas heavily affected by the wildfires in Spain.
Image: Raging wildfires near Madrid, Spain
The European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher announced on 26 July that the agency had cleared its Cebreros deep-space ground station in Spain to return to service after inspections…
July 26, 2026
NASA has confirmed that the forest fire that has affected the environment of the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), located in the town of Robledo de Chavela..
Key ground stations in Spain operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have avoided serious damage from major wildfires in the country. The post NASA and ESA facilities avoid major damage from…
July 25, 2026
ESA is closely monitoring the situation of forest fires near its deep space station in Cebreros (Spain).
Keith’s note: NASA PAO statement about fires in the area around Madrid DSN complex: “The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), located in Robledo, Spain, about 37 miles (65 km) […] The…
July 24, 2026
"Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so."
Wildfires near Madrid, Spain forced the evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network facility there today. The agency reports that everyone is safe. The Madrid station is one of three around […]
The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex is one of three critical sites around the world that communicate with spacecraft beyond the reach of near-Earth communications capabilities.
Hydra Space, the leading Spanish company in space access solutions, satellite connectivity and the design and launch of ultra-compact nanosatellites, is developing two projects with..
July 23, 2026
As the solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 approaches in France and Spain, video creator Astronophilos hosted the Ciel & Espace editorial team for a web broadcast…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has hired the Spanish multinational GMV to develop the end-to-end performance simulator of ERS-EO (European Resilience from Space for..
Press Release No. 36-2026 Discover the science behind one of the most extraordinary phenomena of nature and live a total solar eclipse next to the European Space Agency (ESA), the..
The Spanish Ministry of Defence will be able to access the images of the Earth observation satellites CSO (Optical Space Component) in France until 2033. The government approved this Tuesday..
July 22, 2026
Sisteplant and the Centre of Automatics and Robotics (CAR), a mixed centre of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), have signed a..
The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has announced a new line of aid for the development and use of drones by the companies, which is being finalized..
July 21, 2026
Boeing and Spanish companies Anzen Engineering, Clue Technologies and DLTCode have reached the equator of the ASCENT project with a number of advances in digital engineering and security…
July 20, 2026
The Airbus workers' assemblies of the work centres of Getafe, Illescas, Albacete, San Pablo, Tablada and Cadiz on strike have shown their rejection of the proposal made last..
UARX Space, the Galician space technology company, has presented the first orbital transfer vehicle fully developed in Spain, Ossie (acronym in English of Solutions..
July 15, 2026
The company is confident that the new plant will help to place Spain among the main industrial actors in the development of advanced solutions for space missions and technologies of..
July 10, 2026
It has also stressed the need to maintain a carefully controlled mass centre to ensure the optimal efficiency of the propellants during the autonomous landing. The consortium..
July 8, 2026
Press Release No. 34-2026 The media are invited to participate in online briefings, in English and Spanish, on July 15, before the solar eclipse..
July 6, 2026
Sener is doubling its area dedicated to the space and defense sectors to over 40,000 square meters, once the extensions of its plants are completed in Tres Cantos (Madrid)..
