This Monday, Spain and the United States signed the renewal of the Scientific Cooperation Agreement that allows NASA to use of the Tracking station in Robledo de Chavela for another fifteen years.
With this new version, aspects of the practical operation of the Station and the Spanish Space Agency is incorporated, as reported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
The document, which reflects decades of collaboration between both countries, has been signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs, Diego Martínez Belíoand the United States ambassador to Spain, Julissa Reynoso.
The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Moranthighlighted that, with this agreement, “the alliance remains between two countries united by the same idea of democratic progress and bringing science to the development of a better society.”
Likewise, he pointed out that “Spain has placed space research among the strategic priorities of our policies, because this is an extraordinary tool for innovation and social development.”
The event also included the participation of the Minister of Defense, Margaret Roblesand with the high representative of NASA, Kenneth D. Bowersox.
60th anniversary
Next October marks the 60th anniversary of the first scientific cooperation agreement between Spain and the United States to facilitate POT certain lands and rights of way in the municipalities of Robledo de Chavela and Las Navas del Rey, in Madrid.
Spain and the United States They thus demonstrate their mutual trust, and their willingness to continue working together in areas as relevant as science and space research.
The Robledo de Chavela station is integrated into a global network of three equidistant NASA stations known as Deep Space Network (DSN), along with those of California and Canberra (Australia), and is of great importance for space exploration.
