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Catalonia Space Labs
The Catalonia Space Labs make available to the public a series of equipment from the space sector in Catalonia to facilitate its visibility within the local ecosystem.
Access to equipment for carrying out tests and developing components is an essential need within the space sector.
The Catalonia Space Labs seek to map the facilities linked to the sector in Catalonia, with the aim of facilitating their use, promoting them at local and international level, and providing support for their improvement, either by maximising the use of already existing equipment, or by developing other infrastructure where needs are detected.
A portal has been created, accessible to the public, to be a reference point for the equipment of the space sector in Catalonia to facilitate its visibility. The portal shows an inventory of the existing infrastructures and capacities, created in collaboration with the companies and entities that own them. Below, you will find the list of those infrastructures which have been confirmed to be present on the portal.
Catalonia Space Labs is an initiative promoted by the Government of Catalonia, with the support of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), initiated as part of the NewSpace Strategy approved by the Catalan Government in 2020, and continues its deployment with the new Catalonia Space Strategy 2030, in force since autumn 2025.
If you are interested in any of these infrastructures or would like to be part of the Catalonia Space Labs, please let us know by sending an email to info-apec@ieec.cat.
infrastructure, equipment and services
AldoraTech
Manufacturing of composite materials / Unmanned aircraft for testing systems in free fall
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Mechanical workshop / Electronics workshop / Prototyping room / Advanced optomechanical design / Photometry laboratories
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3D printing (FFF), Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), ED printing (FFF) metal piece / 3D printing, Stereolithography (SLA) / CNC machining centres: Deckel Maho DMU 50, Evolution HAAS VF 3ss, Milltronics RH20 / Wire EDM / 3D printing, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
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Design and Calculation of structures / Qualification of new materials and structures / Manufacturing of structures
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EMC testing service in an anechoic chamber / On-site EMC assessment service / Electronic redesign service for EMC / Training service / Time domain emission measuring receivers / Microwave network calibration and measurements of electromagnetic properties of materials / Test bench for the generation of complex modulated signals / Test bench for measuring RF signals in real time
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Payload Laboratory / Integration Laboratory / Astronomy Laboratory / Clean Room / Microscopy Clean Room / Optical Laboratory / Radiation Laboratory
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Mechanics laboratory / Clean rooms / Cryostat / Optical laboratory / Shielded room
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Laboratory of radiation detectors for space applications / Design and testing of space integrated circuits and systems / Clean room / Advanced Encapsulation, physical inspection and reliability for space / Electrothermal and thermal characterisation of electronic devices / Electrical characterisation of power devices
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Data management / Data analysis / Software development / Training
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