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CATEC openes its new facilities in Galicia, with a visit from María Jesús Lorenzana, the Regional Minister for Economy and Industry of the Galician Regional Government

CATEC2026-04-15T09:14:40+02:00April 14, 2026|Categories: News|Tags: CATEC, companies, defence, drones, facilities, Galicia, Galician Regional Government, industry, projects, security, technologies, UAS, unmanned systems|

At these facilities, located in Ames (A Coruña), our centre develops cutting-edge technologies and projects in the field of drones and UAS for security and defence. Since it began operations, it has carried out R&D initiatives with more than 10 companies, as well as other research projects with the Universities of Vigo and A Coruña.

BEEYONDERS: Advancing the development of intelligent drones to improve inspection and safety in road and tunnel construction

CATEC2026-04-01T13:12:46+02:00March 16, 2026|Categories: Innovation & Technology|Tags: artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, Beeyonders, CATEC, collaborative robotics, construction, drones, Europe, Horizon Europe 2022–2025, innovation, maintenance, project, safety, technology, tunnels, UAS|

CATEC has made a significant contribution to this European project by developing a system comprising an autonomous drone and navigation and mapping algorithms, enabling safe inspections and the generation of real-time 3D maps that are extremely useful during tunnel construction.

CATEC shares its expertise on unmanned aerial mobility and the promotion of spin-offs in the space sector at the Trasfiere Forum

CATEC2026-04-01T12:44:06+02:00February 27, 2026|Categories: Events, News|Tags: CATEC, CUAM, drones, entrepreneurship, Foro Trasfiere, innovation, Science, Space, spin-offs, talent, technology, UAS, University, unmanned aerial mobility, unmanned systems|

Our Director of Avionics and Systems, Antidio Viguria, and the Manager of ESA BIC Andalucía, Gracia Catalina Piñero, took part in two panel discussions at this leading event in the field of science and innovation in Spain, held in Málaga

The stratosphere: the next frontier for unmanned aviation

CATEC2026-02-16T14:10:44+01:00February 12, 2026|Categories: Innovation & Technology|Tags: Antidio Viguria, HAPS, UAS|

The climatic and geographical conditions and the existing infrastructure position Spain to lead High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) operations in Europe and become a benchmark in this new frontier of aviation with unmanned systems.

CATEC leads the operation of Europe’s first stratospheric flight of a high-altitude and long-range pseudo-satellite

CATEC2025-12-17T15:18:26+01:00December 17, 2025|Categories: Innovation & Technology, News|Tags: CATEC, drones, Europe, flight operator, Fuerteventura, HAPS, High Altitude Platform System, pseudo-satellite, stratospheric flight, Telespazio Ibérica, UAS, UAS flight, UAS operator|

Our technology centre was also responsible for the operational authorization of the flight, which was the result of an extensive and complex preparation process carried out in close collaboration with the Telespazio Ibérica drone team as the end user.

CATEC develops an advanced artificial intelligence system for the EXTINCIA project for the intelligent guidance of UAVs in the fight against forest fires

CATEC2025-12-16T11:08:59+01:00December 16, 2025|Categories: Innovation & Technology, News|Tags: artificial intelligence, CATEC, drones, IA, UAS|

Our technology center has participated in this initiative through the company Clue Technologies, and its role has focused on developing a photorealistic simulation architecture based on Unreal Engine 5 and Matlab/Simulink, which has been used to implement an AI agent to perform the task of intelligent guidance in unmanned aerial platforms for firefighting services

The management of missions in real time: a key factor in the development of the ‘INTEGRUAS’ project.

CATEC2025-07-08T10:50:50+02:00July 8, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: CATEC, CDTI, FUVEX, Integrúas, missions, U-space, UAS|

The collaboration between Fuvex and CATEC bears fruit with the development of the Advanced 4D Trajectory Planning and Management System, a software that integrates the pre-tactical and tactical phases of UAS missions and their integration into U-Space.

The U-ELCOME project connects two U-space airspaces for the first time via drone in a medical transport operation in Andalusia.

CATEC2025-06-12T14:54:45+02:00June 12, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: ATLAS, CATEC, drones, U-ELCOME proyect, UAS|

This European project successfully demonstrates at the ATLAS facilities how the use of unmanned aerial systems can help provide solutions for transporting medical supplies in remote or hard-to-reach areas, improving accessibility.