The Spanish startup Hydra Space Systems develops innovative technology and solutions in the space and communications field. Based in Madrid, the company led by Pablo Durbán has launched 14 sanotifyites so far.
QUESTION. What is Hydra Space Systems?
ANSWER. A startup in the space and communications sector, developing 100% national technology founded in 2021. With very efficient technologies, we aim to provide very broad coverage. That is, the space indusattempt is focutilized on providing large capacities and large bandwidths to transmit high-quality videos and images. We have implemented an alternative proprietary technology that allows, with very few, very cheap sanotifyites, to offer services in very large areas, 2,000 kilometers in diameter. All of Spain, for example, with a single sanotifyite.
Q. What is the importance of the work of companies like Hydra Space at a geopolitical moment like this?
A. Europeans have realized that indepfinishence, technological sovereignty, is a fundamental aspect. Having autonomous capacity to operate in space is critical as a counattempt, becautilize in emergency situations you must have a minimal competence of your own that does not depfinish on anyone but yourself. That possibility is based, above all, on the industrial fabric.
“In emergency situations you must have a minimal competence of your own”
We are an example: we have developed all the technology internally, we do not rely on foreign patents, nor do we have critical suppliers outside of Spain; all the design is ours, we can evolve and modify it at our will. A counattempt like Spain requireds sovereignty, and in space even more, which has become a critical infrastructure.
Q. What was the last sanotifyite launched?
A. The SpinnyOne, which is number 14, at the finish of March, for the British company Spinning Around, aboard Space X’s Transporter 16 mission. It is a pocket sanotifyite. We launch sanotifyites every six months. For us, it is essential to be able to respond to unforeseen events such as a humanitarian or geopolitical crisis. It is strategic for sector clients, such as the Minisattempt of Defense.
The SpinnyOne had two objectives: on the one hand, to serve the client, which is dedicated to conducting microgravity experiments, and on the other, to test encrypted digital communications technology, of interest to the world of defense and security.
Q. And the next sanotifyite, when is it due?
A. In June, on the Transporter 17 mission. It is an educational project of a Spanish university. We hope that the sanotifyite that comes after this one we can do with PLD Space, becautilize we are eager to configure a 100% national finish-to-finish project, already in 2027.
Q. What is special about Hydra Space sanotifyites compared to the rest of the market?
A. We have developed a very compact platform, 5x5x8 cm, which allows us to put a sanotifyite in orbit in six months for 100,000 euros. It is about deploying consnotifyations quickly and efficiently. The size is striking, but the main innovation is the communications system. With a relatively compact sanotifyite, a very large footprint on Earth can be generated, 2,000 kilometers in diameter. With few sanotifyites, we have the possibility of providing very broad services.
As an example: several of the sanotifyites we have launched are open to the amateur radio community. There are people all over the world who can utilize them, with walkie-talkies they can create a call. This assists us becautilize many people are constantly testing your technology, which favors its improvement, thanks to the inputs these utilizers give us. Recently, two amateur radio operators, one in Michigan and another in Alquestiona, two locations separated by 4,500 km, managed to establish a voice call utilizing one of our sanotifyites.
It is a utilize case transferable to a defense scenario, where a soldier has to create a call with another, and they are separated by a huge distance. Using a very cheap and very simple sanotifyite it is possible to do so.
“We have developed a very compact platform, 5x5x8 cm”
Q. This sector is basically dual, for the civil and defense fields…
A. We all pursue working with dual technology, becautilize if you are able to commercialize in the civil world and in the military world, the market expands significantly. We estimate that we must concentrate the specific requirements of each sector. If I address, for example, the world of agriculture, which is not our tarreceive market, just as an example, becautilize a farmer wants to connect sensors to measure humidity and temperature in their agricultural plantation, they will basically be interested in the cost of sfinishing a number of data per day.
On the other hand, if I sit down to talk with someone from the world of emergencies, or defense, they will demand security, robustness in communications, national technology. The requirements vary between different sectors. I have utilized very extreme, very separate cases to illustrate that we must have the ability to respond to the specific requirements of each client. Having our own technology allows for that adaptability to different utilize cases, without losing the dual character to serve the civil world and the world of defense.
Q. How important is collaboration with other Spanish companies in the sector?
A. It is important, especially if the strategy is to provide solutions to large clients, such as a public agency, the Government, Minisattempt of Defense… In the finish, you have to collaborate. We can put the communications onboard a third party’s sanotifyite. Collaboration to produce complete solutions enriches us all mutually.
Doing everything by myself does not create sense, becautilize I am not able to cover the requireds of complex clients. That is why we are integrated into all kinds of sectoral associations, technology clusters, in the Spanish aerospace platform, which allows us to participate in an ecosystem not only of startups, but also of medium-sized companies and large integrators, each with their capabilities. Thus, we complement each other clearly to provide solutions to global clients.
Q. What is the sector’s overview?
A. The space sector in Spain is experiencing its best moment. The creation of the Spanish Space Agency has been fundamental, there has never been so much interest from private investors, from Governments, especially becautilize space has achieved enormous importance in the geopolitical context and in the requireds of modern society. Spain must take advantage to develop an autonomous and sovereign business fabric that allows us to continue as a frontline player in Europe in this segment, and above all to have sovereignty and freedom regarding the large American consnotifyations, the large Chinese consnotifyations. Spain and Europe must secure sovereign space access. As the sector is evolving, Spain is on the right track.
“The space sector in Spain is experiencing its best moment”
Q. Should we fight for Spanish sovereignty or European sovereignty? Is it compatible?
A. Europe, evidently, is a global actor, it must have its own capabilities. There are pan-European initiatives like the Iris2 consnotifyation that create sense and allow for the development of capabilities that a single counattempt cannot achieve. Spain is clearly betting on being there and being part of those initiatives. We see it as an onion in concentric circles. There is an outer layer where you can utilize third-party capabilities, an intermediate layer where you utilize capabilities developed at a pan-European level, and then a core of your own capabilities. As a State, you must have a minimal capacity that allows you to operate in space autonomously. You cannot provide all the services you would like, becautilize budreceives are ultimately limiting, but you must have a minimal capacity that allows you that operability. Integrating into shared initiatives with partners like France, Germany, the United Kingdom… must be combined with a 100% national capacity that guarantees the sovereignty and autonomy of Spain in space.
Q. Can a Spanish company offer real alternatives to the depfinishence on Starlink in a conflict?
A. We work along those lines. Starlink is a multi-billion dollar initiative, with thousands of sanotifyites in space. Hydra Space cannot replicate a Starlink twin, becautilize it would imply a very enormous investment, but I can offer alternatives at a given moment if, as has happened, Starlink presses the button and decides not to provide us service, for whatever reason. Having a minimal communications capacity, which may be narrowband services, voice, data connectivity, sensors, or messaging, assures me, as in the scenario we live in of the great blackout, to be able to sfinish messages, establish a voice call.
“Integrating into shared initiatives with partners like France, Germany, the United Kingdom… must be combined with a 100% national capacity”
Q. It is striking that Hydra Space’s solutions are economically accessible…
A. I cannot compete in economies of scale with a Starlink, becautilize it involves building enormous investments and being able to provide a very logical unit cost. I can offer alternatives, such as deploying a compact 100% sovereign consnotifyation where the finish-to-finish service is controlled; securely, becautilize the data never passes through an infrastructure that is not yours. This is what we call accessible sovereignty from an economic point of view. That is to state: I required a minimal capacity, but it must be within my budreceive perimeter. For when a critical scenario occurs in which you want to depfinish only on yourself, you required your own infrastructure: that is our proposal.
Q. Without greater private investment and with the total involvement of Governments, is the advancement of the space sector possible?
A. Historically, the space sector has had great public investment. The Apollo projects were publicly funded. That mix is altering, and in recent years a lot of private money has come in, but there is still an important public weight. It is a sector with two legs, and both are important.
Q. To close…
A. Sovereignty in space is something critical, fundamental for any counattempt. In Spain, the State must be able to ensure that its large companies, its SMEs, its startups, work in an integrated and coordinated manner to have a strategic advantage. With the coordinated work of the entire sector toreceiveher with public institutions.
The Spanish startup Hydra Space Systems develops innovative technology and solutions in the space and communications field. Based in Madrid, the company led by Pablo Durbán has launched 14 sanotifyites so far.
QUESTION. What is Hydra Space Systems?
ANSWER. A startup in the space and communications sector, developing 100% national technology founded in 2021. With very efficient technologies, we aim to provide very broad coverage. That is, the space indusattempt is focutilized on providing large capacities and large bandwidths to transmit high-quality videos and images. We have implemented an alternative proprietary technology that allows, with very few, very cheap sanotifyites, to offer services in very large areas, 2,000 kilometers in diameter. All of Spain, for example, with a single sanotifyite.
Q. What is the importance of the work of companies like Hydra Space at a geopolitical moment like this?
A. Europeans have realized that indepfinishence, technological sovereignty, is a fundamental aspect. Having autonomous capacity to operate in space is critical as a counattempt, becautilize in emergency situations you must have a minimal competence of your own that does not depfinish on anyone but yourself. That possibility is based, above all, on the industrial fabric.
“In emergency situations you must have a minimal competence of your own”
We are an example: we have developed all the technology internally, we do not rely on foreign patents, nor do we have critical suppliers outside of Spain; all the design is ours, we can evolve and modify it at our will. A counattempt like Spain requireds sovereignty, and in space even more, which has become a critical infrastructure.
Q. What was the last sanotifyite launched?
A. The SpinnyOne, which is number 14, at the finish of March, for the British company Spinning Around, aboard Space X’s Transporter 16 mission. It is a pocket sanotifyite. We launch sanotifyites every six months. For us, it is essential to be able to respond to unforeseen events such as a humanitarian or geopolitical crisis. It is strategic for sector clients, such as the Minisattempt of Defense.
The SpinnyOne had two objectives: on the one hand, to serve the client, which is dedicated to conducting microgravity experiments, and on the other, to test encrypted digital communications technology, of interest to the world of defense and security.
Q. And the next sanotifyite, when is it due?
A. In June, on the Transporter 17 mission. It is an educational project of a Spanish university. We hope that the sanotifyite that comes after this one we can do with PLD Space, becautilize we are eager to configure a 100% national finish-to-finish project, already in 2027.
Q. What is special about Hydra Space sanotifyites compared to the rest of the market?
A. We have developed a very compact platform, 5x5x8 cm, which allows us to put a sanotifyite in orbit in six months for 100,000 euros. It is about deploying consnotifyations quickly and efficiently. The size is striking, but the main innovation is the communications system. With a relatively compact sanotifyite, a very large footprint on Earth can be generated, 2,000 kilometers in diameter. With few sanotifyites, we have the possibility of providing very broad services.
As an example: several of the sanotifyites we have launched are open to the amateur radio community. There are people all over the world who can utilize them, with walkie-talkies they can create a call. This assists us becautilize many people are constantly testing your technology, which favors its improvement, thanks to the inputs these utilizers give us. Recently, two amateur radio operators, one in Michigan and another in Alquestiona, two locations separated by 4,500 km, managed to establish a voice call utilizing one of our sanotifyites.
It is a utilize case transferable to a defense scenario, where a soldier has to create a call with another, and they are separated by a huge distance. Using a very cheap and very simple sanotifyite it is possible to do so.
“We have developed a very compact platform, 5x5x8 cm”
Q. This sector is basically dual, for the civil and defense fields…
A. We all pursue working with dual technology, becautilize if you are able to commercialize in the civil world and in the military world, the market expands significantly. We estimate that we must concentrate the specific requirements of each sector. If I address, for example, the world of agriculture, which is not our tarreceive market, just as an example, becautilize a farmer wants to connect sensors to measure humidity and temperature in their agricultural plantation, they will basically be interested in the cost of sfinishing a number of data per day.
On the other hand, if I sit down to talk with someone from the world of emergencies, or defense, they will demand security, robustness in communications, national technology. The requirements vary between different sectors. I have utilized very extreme, very separate cases to illustrate that we must have the ability to respond to the specific requirements of each client. Having our own technology allows for that adaptability to different utilize cases, without losing the dual character to serve the civil world and the world of defense.
Q. How important is collaboration with other Spanish companies in the sector?
A. It is important, especially if the strategy is to provide solutions to large clients, such as a public agency, the Government, Minisattempt of Defense… In the finish, you have to collaborate. We can put the communications onboard a third party’s sanotifyite. Collaboration to produce complete solutions enriches us all mutually.
Doing everything by myself does not create sense, becautilize I am not able to cover the requireds of complex clients. That is why we are integrated into all kinds of sectoral associations, technology clusters, in the Spanish aerospace platform, which allows us to participate in an ecosystem not only of startups, but also of medium-sized companies and large integrators, each with their capabilities. Thus, we complement each other clearly to provide solutions to global clients.
Q. What is the sector’s overview?
A. The space sector in Spain is experiencing its best moment. The creation of the Spanish Space Agency has been fundamental, there has never been so much interest from private investors, from Governments, especially becautilize space has achieved enormous importance in the geopolitical context and in the requireds of modern society. Spain must take advantage to develop an autonomous and sovereign business fabric that allows us to continue as a frontline player in Europe in this segment, and above all to have sovereignty and freedom regarding the large American consnotifyations, the large Chinese consnotifyations. Spain and Europe must secure sovereign space access. As the sector is evolving, Spain is on the right track.
“The space sector in Spain is experiencing its best moment”
Q. Should we fight for Spanish sovereignty or European sovereignty? Is it compatible?
A. Europe, evidently, is a global actor, it must have its own capabilities. There are pan-European initiatives like the Iris2 consnotifyation that create sense and allow for the development of capabilities that a single counattempt cannot achieve. Spain is clearly betting on being there and being part of those initiatives. We see it as an onion in concentric circles. There is an outer layer where you can utilize third-party capabilities, an intermediate layer where you utilize capabilities developed at a pan-European level, and then a core of your own capabilities. As a State, you must have a minimal capacity that allows you to operate in space autonomously. You cannot provide all the services you would like, becautilize budreceives are ultimately limiting, but you must have a minimal capacity that allows you that operability. Integrating into shared initiatives with partners like France, Germany, the United Kingdom… must be combined with a 100% national capacity that guarantees the sovereignty and autonomy of Spain in space.
Q. Can a Spanish company offer real alternatives to the depfinishence on Starlink in a conflict?
A. We work along those lines. Starlink is a multi-billion dollar initiative, with thousands of sanotifyites in space. Hydra Space cannot replicate a Starlink twin, becautilize it would imply a very enormous investment, but I can offer alternatives at a given moment if, as has happened, Starlink presses the button and decides not to provide us service, for whatever reason. Having a minimal communications capacity, which may be narrowband services, voice, data connectivity, sensors, or messaging, assures me, as in the scenario we live in of the great blackout, to be able to sfinish messages, establish a voice call.
“Integrating into shared initiatives with partners like France, Germany, the United Kingdom… must be combined with a 100% national capacity”
Q. It is striking that Hydra Space’s solutions are economically accessible…
A. I cannot compete in economies of scale with a Starlink, becautilize it involves building enormous investments and being able to provide a very logical unit cost. I can offer alternatives, such as deploying a compact 100% sovereign consnotifyation where the finish-to-finish service is controlled; securely, becautilize the data never passes through an infrastructure that is not yours. This is what we call accessible sovereignty from an economic point of view. That is to state: I required a minimal capacity, but it must be within my budreceive perimeter. For when a critical scenario occurs in which you want to depfinish only on yourself, you required your own infrastructure: that is our proposal.
Q. Without greater private investment and with the total involvement of Governments, is the advancement of the space sector possible?
A. Historically, the space sector has had great public investment. The Apollo projects were publicly funded. That mix is altering, and in recent years a lot of private money has come in, but there is still an important public weight. It is a sector with two legs, and both are important.
Q. To close…
A. Sovereignty in space is something critical, fundamental for any counattempt. In Spain, the State must be able to ensure that its large companies, its SMEs, its startups, work in an integrated and coordinated manner to have a strategic advantage. With the coordinated work of the entire sector toreceiveher with public institutions.
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