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INTA's main campus is located in Torrejón de Ardoz, next to the air base, with additional centers and facilities in other locations in Spain.
INTA consists of a general secretariat and five deputy general directorates: Coordination and Plans, Space Systems, Aeronautical Systems, Terrestrial Systems, and Naval Systems.
INTA also has centers in Lugo (Aeroportada Research Center of Rozas), Huelva (Testing Center for Unmanned Systems and Experimentation Center of El Arenosillo), and Gran Canaria (Canary Space Center - Maspalomas Station).
The last director of INTA was Lieutenant General José Manuel García Siero, who served briefly from 2012 to 2013.
INTA's main functions include carrying out various types of tests for the verification and certification of materials, components, equipment, systems, and subsystems.
A general from the Army has returned to lead INTA after over a decade of directors from the Air Force and Space.
INTA specializes in R&D in defense across various sectors of the Armed Forces: aerospace, terrestrial, and naval.
The Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) has a new director general.
The ANSER mission is undertaken by INTA, the Spanish Institute of Aerospace Technology.
The ANSER project has been developed using INTA's internal funding and was selected for flight through the IOD/IOV program.
PLD Space postponed the launch of MIURA 1 until next September after reaching an agreement with the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) of the Ministry of Defence.
PLD Space planned to conduct the Miura 1 suborbital launch in late May from a coastal facility operated by the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA).
PLD Space’s MIURA 1 SN1 test flight mission at INTA’s El Arenosillo facility in Huelva was carried out on time on 17 June 2023 but did not launch because not all umbilical cables in the avionics bay were released.
The National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) granted PLD Space permission to operate in a flight test window that extends until 2023-05-31.
On 2023-05-18, PLD Space conducted a static-fire test of its Miura 1 rocket at the El Arenosillo launch site operated by the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA).
PLD Space plans to conduct a suborbital launch in a window approved by the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) that runs through 2023-05-31 to test technologies for its small orbital launch vehicle.
The static-fire test cleared the way for a suborbital launch of Miura 1 in the INTA-approved window running through 2023-05-31.
PLD Space will announce the Miura 1 launch date up to 48 hours in advance after completing an INTA flight review.
PLD Space plans to launch Miura 1 rockets from El Arenosillo, INTA’s suborbital spaceport on the southwestern coast of Spain near Portugal.