Hisdesat inaugurated this Friday its new Satellite Control Center, located in Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid), and from which the government operator will manage the two new SpainSat NG military satellites, in which the Ministry of Defense will invest 1.4 billion euros in the next 15 years.
This is the first center in Spain prepared to operate satellites in any orbit and will serve the Armed Forces starting in 2025.Furthermore, it is prepared to provide secure satellite communications services to different international organizations and allied and friendly countries, mainly from the EU and NATOin an environment for exchanging sensitive information with different users.
In this way you can manage classified information from multiple usersindividually guaranteeing the security of the information for each of them.
The control center will start working with a team of 70 engineers technical and is expected to increase to 120 at the end of the year 2027.
The Secretary of State for Defence, Amparo Valcarcewho attended the inauguration, pointed out that the center aims to “meet the needs of the Ministry of Defensesuch as the exploitation and operation of the future SpainSat New Generation I and II”.
Valcarce has visited the antenna field and the control center facilitiesl, accompanied by the president of the board of directors, Santiago Bolíbar Piñeiro, and the general director of Hisdesat, Miguel Ángel García Primo.
During the visit, the Secretary of State indicated that the SpainSat NG will involve an investment by the Ministry of almost 1.4 billion euros over the next 15 years and “they will enhance the Spanish contribution to the satellite communications projects of the European Defense Agency and NATO”.
In turn, Miguel Ángel García Primo explained that the launch of the control center means “a quantitative and qualitative leap” for the company as a government satellite operator.
“It is a new generation control center for the new generation satellites that “We will launch into orbit in the next few weeks.”he stressed.
The SpainSat NG I satellite is scheduled to be launched into orbit at the end of January 2025. Elon Musk’s company, Space X, will be in charge of launching it into geostationary orbit, 36,000 kilometers from Earthfrom Cape Canaveral (Florida). Its twin will likely be launched into orbit in November of that same year.
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