Europe continues to look for ways to deepen its technological sovereignty, both on Earth and in space. And it does so, to a great extent, from Barcelona: this Tuesday, Indra signed two contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the design and development of the ground stations for the new generation of the Galileo project, the European global satellite navigation system, comparable to the North American GPS, and to which 5 billion devices are already connected.

The first Catalan nanosatellite, Enxaneta, lifted off this morning at 7.07 after the launch had to be postponed twice this weekend. Monitoring the flow of rivers and water reserves, tracking wildlife and being able to protect it, receiving weather data from stations in remote places or watching herds and crops to detect diseases and define more efficient strategies will be among the tasks it will carry out from its orbit 500 kilometres above the Earth. The launch of the small device from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which could be followed live on ensposemenorbita.cat, was due to take place this Saturday at 07:07:12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, one of the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. However, it was finally postponed twice due to technical problems. This morning it was finally launched.