{"id":1902,"date":"2026-03-02T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spains-industry-minister-visits-open-cosmos-barcelona-facility\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:33:08","slug":"spains-industry-minister-visits-open-cosmos-barcelona-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spains-industry-minister-visits-open-cosmos-barcelona-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Industry Minister Visits Open Cosmos Barcelona Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/cover23261_639080235896684340.webp\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Spain\u2019s Industry Minister Visits Open Cosmos Barcelona Facility\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/cover23261_639080235896684340.webp\" style=\"opacity: 0;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/cover23261_639080235896684340.webp\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, visited the facilities of Open Cosmos in Barcelona to gain first-hand insight into the expansion of its technological infrastructure and the progress of its main space programs. The Minister was welcomed by Rafel Jord\u00e0, Founder and CEO of Open Cosmos, who outlined the company\u2019s strategic role within the national and European space ecosystem. During the meeting, the company detailed its capability to carry out complete space missions, from satellite design and manufacturing to integration, operation, and exploitation of the data obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The visit included a tour of the expanded Clean Room, a 200 m\u00b2 facility that will enable the company to multiply the number of satellites integrated simultaneously, enhance infrastructure for institutional and commercial missions, and attract international projects. The Open Cosmos technical team demonstrated assembly processes, functional testing, and environmental testing carried out prior to launch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: Open Cosmos Launches First Satellites for Proprietary LEO Telecom Constellation<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Minister also attended a live demonstration of the mission control center and the DataCosmos platform, a tool designed to access, analyse, and exploit satellite data. During the demonstration, examples of applications for public policy were presented, including land management, emergency response, security, agriculture, and environmental monitoring.<\/p>\n<p><em>For his part,&nbsp;<\/em><em><strong>Rafel Jord\u00e0, Founder and CEO of Open Cosmos<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>, added:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cFor&nbsp;<\/em><em>Open Cosmos<\/em><em>, it is an honour to welcome Minister Jordi Hereu and to show how we are contributing to the growth of the space sector in Spain. The expansion of our facilities and the projects currently underway reflect our commitment to further strengthening industrial capabilities that generate real impact for public administrations, companies, and society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, visited the facilities of Open Cosmos in Barcelona to gain first-hand insight into the expansion of its technological infrastructure and the progress of its main space programs. The Minister was welcomed by Rafel Jord\u00e0, Founder and CEO of Open Cosmos, who outlined the company\u2019s strategic role within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,38,20],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-leo","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}