Research Organization for Aeronautics and Space

The Research Organization for Aeronautics and Space, known in Indonesian as Organisasi Riset Penerbangan dan Antariksa and abbreviated ORPA, is one of the research organizations that sit under the National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia, known as BRIN. It was founded on 1 September 2021 as the successor of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, known as LAPAN, after LAPAN was liquidated and folded into BRIN. ORPA therefore carries forward Indonesia's national research work in aviation and space, which had previously been done by a standalone institute, but it now does so as one unit inside a single combined research agency rather than as an independent space agency of its own.