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The Government will create a Spanish Space Agency, as announced this Thursday by the director of the Prime Minister's Cabinet, Iván Redondo, during the Mixed Commission on National Security.

"I announce the creation of the Spanish Space Agency", said Redondo, without giving more details, while he was explaining the five chapters into which the new National Security Strategy is divided, which will be approved before summer and replaces that of 2017.

During his speech, Redondo detailed the structure and main contents of the Strategy, which will consist of five chapters.

The fourth of them, as stated, articulates an integrated approach where the objectives are established and the lines of action are detailed, with

the main objective of developing the national security system

to face the risks and threats that may harm the interests nationals.

Within this chapter, five transversal objectives are established.

One of them is "to favor the security dimension in the development of technological capabilities and strategic industries", an objective that already appeared in the previous Strategy but which "continues to be key in these times of increasingly accelerated technological development and deployment" , as indicated.

"And at this point, for example, I announce the creation of the Spanish Space Agency, something that is important to be able to integrate resources," he added.

A debate with reasons for and against

The creation of a Spanish Space Agency is an idea that has been focusing the debate on the scientific field for years and has its defenders and detractors.

"I have been reflecting for many years on whether in Spain we need a Spanish space agency that complements the Spanish space agency, which is the European one," said the Minister of Science, Pedro Duque, in an online colloquium organized by Executive Forum on 3 of March.

"You can always create more structures, but it is a bit scary (...); creating many public structures is not always the solution to things; we think that, for now, we are going to stay as we are," he said when asked. about.

As he defended, practically all the investment made in Spain in the area of ​​research and development in the space field comes from the Ministry of Science and Innovation through

the contributions made by the Government to the European Space Agency (ESA)

.

Before being minister, in July 2015, Duque advocated for a Spanish space agency that would act as the sole interlocutor and have direct access to Moncloa, in the same way that in the United States the administrator of NASA has it to the White House, as he commented in an interview with the UPM.

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