Celebration of the 1st Space Engineering Congress in partnership with Isdefe

On 24 and 25 June 2015, the inaugural Space Engineering Congress was held at Spain’s Engineering Institute, organised by the Official Association of Spanish Aeronautical Engineers (COIAE).

The congress, which dealt with the state of the art in space engineering in Spain and with the current state of the industry, featured forty speakers and representatives from organisations like INTA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Andalusia and Canaries Astrophysics Institutes, universities and companies.

Isdefe gave two presentations, the first by the Director of Operations, José Manuel Hesse Martín, titled “Participation in the SMOS science mission”, and the second by the engineer Raúl garcía Pérez, titled “Madrid Deep-Space Tracking Station (MDSCC)”.