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National Institute for Aerospace Technology
Agency overview
Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial


Formed	7 May 1942; 83 years ago (1942-05-07)
Headquarters	Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
Employees	1,493 (2020)
Annual budget	€196 million (2023)
Agency executives	José María Salom Piqueres, Director-General Luis Antonio Boixareu Torres, Secretary-General
Parent department	Secretariat of State for Defence
Website	www.inta.es

TheNational Institute for Aerospace Technology "Esteban Terradas" (Spanish:Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial «Esteban Terradas» orINTA) is anautonomous agency of theSpanish public administration dependent on theSecretariat of State for Defence (SEDEF).^[1] It is responsible for theaerospace,aeronautics,hydrodynamics, and defense and security technologies research.

The INTA was established in 1942, as the National Institute of Aeronautical Technology (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeronáutica), and it was integrated in theMinistry of the Air.^[2] It has its headquarters inTorrejón de Ardoz, near Madrid.

Organization

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Its budget, €190 million in 2019, comes from theSpanish Ministry of Defence and from its own projects with the industry. In 2001, it had 1153 R&D staff with 325 full-time equivalent researchers.^[3] As of 2017, INTA had a total of 1500 employees,^[4] 80% of them are dedicated to R&D activities.^[5]^[6]

Its two main areas of activity areresearch and development (for example, in propulsion, materials,remote sensing) andcertification andtesting (for example, in aircraft, software, metrology).

Programs and missions

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Satellites

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Main objectives of the Nano-satellites and Mini-satellites programmes;

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 fromLow Earth orbit.

Satellite programmes:

Intasat-1 was the first INTA satellite, launched on 15 November 1974 by aNASA Delta rocket.^[7]
LBSAT/UPM-Sat 1 was launched onAriane 4 on 7 July 1995.^[8]
Minisat 01 weighted 190 kg and was launched on board of aPegasus rocket^[9] 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 theAriane 5 launch vehicle in December 2004.
Nanosat 1B was launched 5 years later on board of aDnepr.^[10] 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 (Spanish Earth Observation Satellite) are also part of the INTA R&D projects.
Xatcobeo was launched in 2012. Developed in collaboration withAgrupación Estratéxica Aeroespacial (currentlyAlén Space).
OPTOS is the most recent addition to INTA's small satellites line.^[11] OPTOS is based on theCubeSat standard (a 3U platform) 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 aDnepr rocket^[12] and had a service life of 3 years.^[13]
Paz is an observation and reconnaissance satellite launched on 22 February 2018 operated jointly withHisdesat
Ingenio was an optical imaging satellite destroyed during its launch in November 2020.
Anser

All these satellites are totally Spanish in manufacture and design, comprising a low-cost multiuse platform, with modular design subsystems and standard interfaces with the payload module.

Launchers

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INTA designedsounding and orbital rockets such as:

INTA-100^[14] (suborbital)
INTA-255 (suborbital)
INTA-300 (suborbital)
Capricornio (orbital; never flown)
Pilum [es] (orbital; under development)

These operated from theEl Arenosillo rocket launch site.

Aircraft

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SIVA UAV in service since 2006
Diana is a high speedUAV-aerial target in service
HADA suspenden UAV project
ALO UAV in service pending commercialization
Milano,^[15]MALE UAV

Instruments

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Raman Laser Spectrometer (RLS) for detecting minerals and potential biological pigments for theESA'sRosalind Franklin rover^[16]
Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) for NASA'sPerseverance rover^[17]
Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) for theCuriosity rover
Temperature and Winds for InSight (TWINS) for theInSight mission
Signs Of LIfe Detector (SOLID) to be flown in a future mission (current proposal isIcebreaker Life mission)

Other projects

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Artemisa

Facilities

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Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex, operated by INTA

This is an incomplete list of facilities:

Technological campuses

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INTA's headquarters inTorrejón de Ardoz, where the General Sub-directorates of Aeronautical Systems are located
Campus of La Marañosa, inSan Martín de la Vega, base for the General Sub-directorate of Naval Systems
Campus of El Pardo, inEl Pardo, base for the General Sub-directorate of Terrestrial Systems

References

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^Navarro García, José Mª (8 June 2018)."Ángel Olivares, nuevo Secretario de Estado de Defensa".Defensa.com.
^"BOE.es - Documento BOE-A-1980-777".www.boe.es. pp. 932–933. Retrieved16 February 2020.
^Rao, D. B. (2001).Organisational Structure of Science. Discovery Publishing House.ISBN 978-81-7141-570-0.
^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 3 September 2019. Retrieved3 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^"Inta en Cifras" (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial. Archived fromthe original on 24 June 2008.
^Hwan, Kim, Doo (23 April 2021).Global Issues Surrounding Outer Space Law and Policy. IGI Global.ISBN 978-1-7998-7409-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"INTASAT (NSSDC ID: 1974-089C)".National Space Science Data Center Master Catalog.National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved3 November 2008.
^"Capricorno". Archived fromthe original on 6 July 2012. Retrieved20 August 2012.
^Pegasus (rocket)
^"NanoSat programme". Archived fromthe original on 1 December 2009.
^"OPTOS, el primer picosatélite español"(PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 4 November 2013.
^"OPTOS, un pequeño gran satélite 'made in Spain'".El Mundo (in Spanish). Spain. 21 November 2013.
^"OPTOS - eoPortal Directory - Satellite Missions".directory.eoportal.org. Retrieved3 July 2020.
^"Spain in Space a Short History of Spanish Activity in the Space Sector | European Space Agency | NASA".
^"Teniente general José María Salom, director general del INTA - Noticias Defensa en abierto". 14 April 2019.
^"El Espectrómetro Láser Raman (RLS) en ExoMars". 11 March 2016.
^"Centro de Astrobiología".www.cab.inta.es. Archived fromthe original on 12 March 2016.

External links

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INTA Official Site(in Spanish)

Departments andagencies of theGovernment of Spain

Cabinet

Inactive

Agencies

Space program of Spain

Satellites

Communications	Spainsat / XTAR-LANT XTAR-EUR Spainsat NG Amazonas 1 2 3 4A 4B (cancelled) 5 Hispasat 1A 1B 1C 1D AG1 1F Lume-1
Earth observation	Deimos 1 2 Paz Ingenio Atlantic Constellation
Science & technology	Intasat Minisat 01 Nanosat 1 1B UPM-Sat 1 2 Xatcobeo OPTOS

Rockets

Suborbital	Argo INTA 100 255 300 Miura 1
Orbital	Capricornio Bloostar Miura 5 Miura Next Meso

Tracking and launch sites

Other facilities

PLD Space Propulsion Test Facilities

Institutions

Commercial space industry

Astronauts

Public-sector space agencies

Africa

Pan-African and pan-Arab	RASCOM Arabsat
National	ASAL EgSA NARSS ESSTI GSSTC KSA NASRDA SANSA

Americas

North America	CSA NASA NESDIS OSC FAA/AST FCC USSF USSPACECOM NRO
Latin America and the Caribbean	ALCE AEM CONAE ABE AEB DCTA INPE ITA CCE ABAE IVIC

Asia

Pan-Asian	APSCO
Central Asia	KazCosmos¹ Roscosmos¹ SRI VK TNSA¹
East Asia	CNSA SASTIND CASC CALT CAST CCF CGWIC PLAASF CASIC JAXA ISAS JSS NICT NATA KASA KARI KASI SaTReC TASA
South Asia	SPARRSO ISRO² Antrix Corp DoS NRSC NSIL DSA SUPARCO
Southeast Asia	BRIN ORPA INASA MYSA PhilSA SSTL GISTDA VNSC
West Asia	ArmCosmos¹ MAKA¹ NSSA NEHSA ISA ISRC ISA NCSR SSA KACST-SRI SSA² GORS TUA TÜBİTAK UZAY UAESA (MBRSC)

Europe

Pan-European	CEN/CENELEC CEPT ETSI Eurocontrol ECAC ESA ECSS ESTEC EAC ESRIN ECSAT ESAC ESOC ESTRACK Guiana Space Centre EUMETSAT EUTELSAT IGO ESO
EU andEEA	DG DEFIS EUSPA EU SatCen EASA BEREC ALR² BELSPO BIRA-IASB SRTI² CSO² DTU Space ESO¹ CNES² AAE CdE DLR² HSA HSO² ASI LSA LSO¹ SRON NSO NOSA POLSA² CBK PAN UKE KRRiT ORO ULC PTSPACE ROSA² INTA AEC EAE AEE SNSA
Other	ArmCosmos¹ MAKA¹ BSA¹ KazCosmos¹ Roscosmos¹ SRI VVKO SSO TUA TÜBİTAK UZAY SSAU¹ UKSA²