The Catalan Space Agency, known in Catalan as Agencia Espacial de Catalunya and abbreviated AEC, is a regional space agency in Catalonia, an autonomous community of Spain. It was founded in 2021 and is a sub-national body rather than a national agency, so its work sits alongside the national space activity of Spain. The agency has already put hardware into orbit: it launched three nanosatellites, Enxaneta on 22 March 2021, Menut on 3 January 2023 and Minairo on 15 April 2023. This small-satellite record makes it an example of how a region can take part in spaceflight through compact, low-cost spacecraft.
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The Catalan Space Agency (Catalan: Agència Espacial de Catalunya; AEC) is a space agency in Catalonia, an autonomous community of Spain.
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