Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial

Organization

Programs and missions

Satellites

• R&D programmes in the field of small satellites from 20 kg to 150 kg started in 1997 after MiniSat-1 launch, to keep running internat space activities at INTA.
• The systems and subsystems are mainly developed at INTA with collaborations in the R&D work with several universities and other institutions in Spain
• Development of multimission Service Modules compatible with available launchers: up to 150 kg and 60x60x80cm.
• Other specific tasks or satellite units to the small business Spanish industries, to encourage their participation in space technology.
• Give flight opportunities to the Spanish research community at an affordable budget target each 3–4 years, for new experiments and instruments, in orbit demonstration technologies, earth observation and space exploration from Low Earth orbit.

• Intasat-1 INTA launched its first satellite, the Intasat-1, on 15 November 1974, aboard a NASA Delta rocket.
• LBSAT was launched on Ariane 4 on 7 July 1995.
• Minisat 01 Next satellite in orbit was Minisat 01, with its 190 kg it was launched on board of a Pegasus rocket over the Canary Islands in April 1997.
• Nanosat 01 project was created to continue with the Spanish space program of low cost satellites. It was finally put into orbit by the Ariane 5 launch vehicle in December 2004.
• Nanosat 1B It was only 5 years after when Nanosat 1B. was launched on board of a Dnepr. Parallel to this research activity, a new research line was opened with MicroSat-1, which is a bit heavier at just above 100 kg and was scheduled to be launched in early 2012. NanoSat-2 SeoSat are also part of the INTA R&D projects.
• Xatcobeo launched in 2012. Developed in collaboration with Agrupación Estratéxica Aeroespacial.
• OPTOS Launched in 2013, is the most recent addition to INTA's small satellites line. OPTOS is based on the CubeSat standard but goes far beyond the usual approach for this kind of satellites. It was designed, developed and tested with a completely professional methodology as it is conceived as a technology demonstrator with the target of proving that a satellite of that size can carry out dedicated missions as bigger satellites. It was launched in November 2013 by means of a Dnepr rocket and has been successfully active in orbit since then.
• Paz observation and reconnaissance satellite launched on 22 February 2018 operated jointly with Hisdesat
• Ingenio optical imaging satellite
• Anser

Launchers

• INTA-255
• INTA-300
• INTA-100
• Capricornio
• Pilum

Aircraft

• SIVA UAV in service since 2006
• Diana is a hight speed UAV-aerial target in service
• HADA suspenden UAV project
• ALO UAV in service pending commercialization
• Milano, UAV MALE

  Instruments

• Raman Laser Spectrometer for detecting minerals and potential biological pigments for the ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover
• Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer which will ride on NASA's Perseverance rover
• Rover Environmental Monitoring Station for the Curiosity rover
• Temperature and Winds for InSight on the InSight mission
• Signs Of LIfe Detector to be flown in a future mission

  Other projects

• Artemisa

  Facilities

Technological campuses

• INTA’s headquarters in Torrejón de Ardoz, where the General Sub-directorates of Aeronautical Systems are located
• Campus of La Marañosa, in San Martín de la Vega, base for the General Sub-directorate of Naval Systems
• Campus of El Pardo, in El Pardo, base for the General Sub-directorate of Terrestrial Systems

  Testing facilities

• Rozas Airborne Research Center in Castro de Rei, Galicia
• Cuadros Testing Laboratory in Cuadros, León
• General Marva Laboratory of Army Corps of Engineers in Madrid
• Flight Experimentation Tests for Aircraft Certification in Chauchina, Granada
• Torregorda Testing Centre in Cadiz
• Airbus A400 Development Efforts in Seville
• INTA Turbojet Engine Test Centre

  Tracking and launch sites

• El Arenosillo Test Centre is a rocket launch site in southern Spain
• El Hierro Launch Centre project for a spaceport in El Hierro
• Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex shared with NASA in Madrid
• Maspalomas Station
• Cebreros Station
• Villafranca Station
• GNSS Service Centre in Madrid

  Other facilities

• Spanish Astrobiology Center shared with CSIC