El Arenosillo

El Arenosillo Test Centre (CEDEA)
Formation4 October 1966[1]
Typerocket launch site
Location
Coordinates37°05′49″N 6°44′19″W / 37.09694°N 6.73861°W / 37.09694; -6.73861
OwnerINTA (Spain)
Director
Carlos Maestro Fernández

El Arenosillo Test Centre (CEDEA) is the name of a rocket launch site for suborbital rockets managed by INTA, located in Moguer (Spain).[2][3][4] It is located in the province of Huelva, Andalucía, in the southwest coast of Spain (37.1° N, 6.7° W).[5] CEDEA is adjacent to the Center of Excellence for Unmanned Systems (CEUS).

El Arenosillo is also the location of an autonomous astronomical observatory of the BOOTES network,[6][4] with two domes and three telescopes.

Equipment

Among the main facilities that INTA has at CEDEA are (updated 2009):

  • Two automatic telemetry systems (fixed and mobile) in S and L bands
  • HF, UHF and VHF communications systems
  • Airborne and maritime surveillance radars, NORTHCONTROL
  • Mobile path radar, VITRO RIR 778X, 250 Kw
  • Radar path, TRACOR RIR 779C, 1 Mw
  • 1Mw VITRO RIR 778C mobile path radar with destruction command
  • Three autonomous mobile optronic stations, MSP 2000, equipped with IR, TV, cinema and radar sensors (3D, high precision and with telemetric capabilities)
  • Weather center with real-time information, satellite data reception and complete radiosonde system
  • Control center where all the information necessary for the supervision and monitoring of a launching operation (air traffic control, meteorology, cartography, sensor data integration, flight safety, etc.) is centralized.
  • Evaluation center: preparation, analysis and evaluation of reports
  • Two high speed cameras (10000 images/s)

Complementing the above, the Center also has:

  • Meteorological laboratory and probe balloons
  • Presentation and conference room
  • Telemetry, radar and optronic workshops
  • Mechanical workshop, electrical workshop, sanitary service and warehouses
  • Accommodation service for operations
  • Laboratory for photographic processing

In 2017 part of the equipment was damaged in a wildfire. In the years 2018 and 2019 INTA has dedicated part of its budget to replace damaged equipment.

Pads

Incomplete list of launch pads:

Launch history

Stratos II+ sounding rocket launched from El Arenosillo.

The first launch of a rocket from El Arenosillo took place 15 October 1966.[7] Up to 1994 a total of 557 rockets were launched from this base, mainly of the Skua type for atmospheric soundings and in collaboration with other countries.[8] Other rockets launched included Nike Cajun, Nike Apache, Centaure, Black Brant, Skylark, Petrel, Super Loki, INTA-255, INTA-300 and INTA-300B.[3]

All rockets for atmospheric soundings in Spain are launched from El Arenosillo.

In 2015 Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering broke the European altitude record for amateur rocketry by launching the Stratos II+ rocket to 21.5 km altitude from El Arenosillo.[9][10]

On 1 March 2017, Zero 2 Infinity tested its first rocket, a Bloostar prototype, in El Arenosillo.[11] A balloon took Bloostar to 25 km. At 25 km the ignition of the rocket took place. The goals of the mission were: (i) validation of the telemetry systems in Space conditions, (ii) controlled ignition, (iii) stabilization of the rocket, (iv) monitoring of the launch sequence, (v) parachute deployment, and finally, (vi) sea recovery. All these goals were achieved in full.[12]

In 2023 PLD Space launched its first rocket Miura 1 from El Arenosillo.[13][14][15]

Date (UTC) Vehicle Payload Launch pad Result Remarks
15 October 1966 Skua INTA, Carabela 4 Aeronomy / test ? Success First launch, 81 km apogee
19 July 1969 INTA-255 ? ? Success
20 December 1969 INTA-255 ? ? Success
22 December 1970 INTA-255 ? ? Success
12 January 1974, 19:12 Skylark H-GR-58 ? Success
27 June 1976 Black Brant IV ASTRO-6, EUV radiation ? Success 720 km apogee
18 February 1981 INTA-300 ? Nike Success
7 April 1992[16] INTA-100 ? ? Success First launch of INTA-100. 120 km apogee
21 October 1993 INTA-300B ? Nike[17] Success
16 April 1994 INTA-300B ? Nike Success
16 Oct 2015[10][9] Stratos II+ ? ? Success 21.457 km (new European amateur record)
1 March 2017 Bloostar ? – Success Bloostar first test
26 July 2018 Stratos III ? ? Failure
11 April 2019 Miura 5 None ? Success Drop test 5 km
23 October 2021[18] Stratos IV ? ? Failure (Aborted)
20 November 2021 Bondar[19] ? ? Success 7.8 km apogee (Spanish amateur record)[20]
7 October 2023[13][14][15] Miura 1 Payload from ZARM Médano del Loro Success 46 km apogee

Only some launches are listed here. For information on individual rockets, see the List of rockets launched from El Arenosillo.

References

  1. ^ International Aerospace Abstracts. Technical Information Service, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 1970.
  2. ^ "Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial". Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  3. ^ a b "El Arenosillo". www.astronautix.com. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b Huelva, Diario de (30 July 2022). "El INTA pone a Huelva en la lanzadera aeroespacial". Diario de Huelva (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  5. ^ A. Méndez-Vilas (21 November 2005). Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Applied Physics: Proceedings of the First International Meeting on Applied Physics (APHYS 2003) October 13–18th, 2003, Badajoz, Spain. Elsevier. pp. 173–. ISBN 978-0-08-044648-6.
  6. ^ "BOOTES-1 History - BOOTES". 10 October 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  7. ^ "ABC MADRID 16-10-1966 página 63 - Archivo ABC". 12 August 2019.
  8. ^ "El Arenosillo". Archived from the original on 4 September 2003.
  9. ^ a b "Zoeken".
  10. ^ a b "Stratos V – Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering". dare.tudelft.nl. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  11. ^ "El runrún: El Arenosillo mira al espacio | Huelva24 | Toda la información y noticias de Huelva".
  12. ^ "Zero 2 Infinity Successfully Launches its First Rocket from the Edge of Space – Z2I". Z2I. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  13. ^ a b Márquez, Beatriz (7 October 2023). "El INTA ya tiene todo listo para el lanzamiento de Miura-1 de PLD Space" [INTA already has everything ready for the launch of Miura-1 from PLD Space]. infoespecial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  14. ^ a b "PLD Space successfully completes first private space rocket launch in Europe". PLD Space. 7 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  15. ^ a b "Spain's MIURA 1 launch campaign kicks off". PLD Space (Press release). 3 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  16. ^ Rivera, Alicia (7 April 1992). "Lanzado con éxito el cohete lanzador español 'Inta-100' | Sociedad | EL PAÍS". El País.
  17. ^ "El Centro de El Arenosillo celebra su 50 aniversario dedicando un monumento al cohete INTA 300 B - Huelva Buenas Noticias".
  18. ^ "Twitter".
  19. ^ "El Arenosillo acoge la campaña de pruebas de un cohete suborbital de sondeo".
  20. ^ "Estudiants de l'ESEIAAT de la UPC llancen amb èxit el coet supersònic suborbital més potent de Catalunya".

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