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ISDEFE presented the first results of TBT telescopes at the conference “SPIE Astronomical telescopes + Instrumentation” in Edinburgh, UK. The project involves the design, construction and start-up of two completely automated optical telescopes intended to track and search for space debris and asteroids.

The Test-Bed Telescopes project is being conducted for the European Space Agency (ESA). It is part of the ESA’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP), and is co-financed by the Spanish, German and Czech delegations. The project was presented last April in the Military

Isdefe publishes the 2015 Annual Report, which describes the organization’s main activities, both operational and corporate, with a special emphasis on its financial, social and environmental facets.

The report highlights the role of Isdefe as the leading in-house provider for defence and security services, as well as for activities involving transport, telecommunications, aerospace, energy and the modernization of government agencies.

On Monday the 11th and Tuesday the 12th of July, the course on “European Union Space Programmes: Galileo, Copernicus and SSA (Space, Situational Awareness)”, co-organised by the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Isdefe as part of the UPM’s 12th Summer Course Series, was held in Real Sitio de San Ildefonso (La Granja, Segovia).

Opening the course were Isdefe’s CEO, Mr. Francisco Quereda Rubio, and the Managing Director of CDTI, Francisco Marín Pérez, who delivered the opening remarks for the course.

As has become the norm in recent years, Madrid Polytechnic University’s (UPM) summer courses, now in their 12th edition, were launched in June at said institution.  Isdefe is taking part in this programme with two lectures in the course on “Laboratory of Ideas for Aviation Safety: Addressing Aviation and ATM Safety Challenges”. The course will be given from July 11 to 14 at the Real Sitio de San Ildefonso (La Granja- Segovia)

To mark the arrival of the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter after a 5-year voyage, Ángel Martín Álvarez, the Director of the MDSCC in Robledo de Chavela gave an interview to RTVE on Friday, July 1, later aired during the July 4 news broadcast.