El Arenosillo

El Arenosillo Test Centre (CEDEA)
Formation4 October 1966[1]
Typerocket launch site
Location
Coordinates37°05′49″N 6°44′19″W / 37.09694°N 6.73861°W / 37.09694; -6.73861
OwnerINTA (Spain)
Director
Carlos Maestro Fernández

El Arenosillo Test Centre (CEDEA) is the name of a rocket launch site for suborbital rockets managed by INTA, located in Moguer (Spain).[2][3][4] It is located in the province of Huelva, Andalucía, in the southwest coast of Spain (37.1° N, 6.7° W).[5] CEDEA is adjacent to the Center of Excellence for Unmanned Systems (CEUS).

El Arenosillo is also the location of an autonomous astronomical observatory of the BOOTES network,[6][4] with two domes and three telescopes.

  1. ^ International Aerospace Abstracts. Technical Information Service, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 1970.
  2. ^ "Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial". Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  3. ^ "El Arenosillo". www.astronautix.com. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b Huelva, Diario de (30 July 2022). "El INTA pone a Huelva en la lanzadera aeroespacial". Diario de Huelva (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  5. ^ A. Méndez-Vilas (21 November 2005). Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Applied Physics: Proceedings of the First International Meeting on Applied Physics (APHYS 2003) October 13–18th, 2003, Badajoz, Spain. Elsevier. pp. 173–. ISBN 978-0-08-044648-6.
  6. ^ "BOOTES-1 History - BOOTES". 10 October 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2023.