June 2023
DURGAS, Oxygen Detection, HCL, CO, HS2, H2 and Modbus Integration.
The CAB Centro de Astrobiología is an astrobiology research center that depends on INTA (National Institute for Aerospace Technology) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research. It is located at km 4 of the road from Torrejón to Ajalvir. The CAB building is identified as K-02, occupying a total area of approximately 5,470 m2.
Spanish chemists, physicists, geologists, biologists and engineers meet and work at its facilities and have the most modern laboratories in Spain. One of them is the Planetary Geology Laboratory where all the meteorite samples arrive in Spain, studying their effects or ultraviolet light on planetary surfaces. They also have a Planetary Surface Simulation Chamber, developed and built in the same CAB. The Robotics and Planetary Exploration Laboratory participates in NASA missions developing remote control systems to carry out operations of robots on the ground.
In the Sample Preparation Laboratories, Isotope Laboratory and Space Cultures Laboratory in this building, INTA has relied on the DURGAS system with its DURTOX detectors for O2, HCL, CO, H2S and H2 and INTEGRA-II integration, designed and manufactured by Duran Electronics.