SENER’s principal activities in the space industry include navigation systems, where it supplies:
- Attitude and orbit control systems (AOCS).
- Guidance, navigation and control systems (GNC).
- Navigation equipment (NAVIGA).
- Testing equipment for AOCS and GNC (GATB).
Ever since SENER started designing AOCS/GNC systems in the nineties, its level of responsibility in this field of technology has evolved, and today it is a leading company and principal contractor. Following the success of the AOCS for the Herschel and Planck scientific missions, which SENER executed in partnership with another company, it has developed the GNC for IXV, also in a joint venture, and today it is the main contractor for Proba-3, with responsibility for the entire mission, and for the AOCS on Euclid, a top-level scientific mission by the ESA, for which SENER is acting as the final authority on its maximum performance navigation system.