BAIE, its members and the Catalan aerospace sector in general have frequent appearances in the Spanish, Catalan and International media. In the links below you can have access to the PDF files of the appearances month by month in the press (please take into account that most files are in Spanish or in Catalan).

This section complements the News section, where the main BAIE Highlights are posted.

2011

Desember

• Alguaire operate outside the Schengen area
• Abertis makes its headquarters in a test of 'smart city'
• The Parc de Recerca UAB (PRUAB) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have contributed to the creation of 56 companies in its 10 years of operatio
• T-Systems has been awarded the delivery and management support services for Vueling
• FICOSA will open a new plant in Shanghai in 2012
• The Law on Science and Innovation laTecnología approved in May, takes effect today. It was set to rebalance the Spanish economic model, with the aim of promoting the development of R + D + i.
• NASA has discovered a planet outside our solar system 600 light years away, which in theory meets the conditions to support life.

November

• Hisnorsat, the largest military communications satellite looking contractors. Hisdesat is primarily responsible for 60% and Norwegian Defense Logistics Organization and controls the remaining 40%.
• The Government would not accept the management of Girona and Reus if the agreement includes commitments from both facilities, amounting to 161 million
• The Catalan company Zero2infinity, based in Barcelona, will offer the possibility of space travel for two hours, which puts the customer 36 kilometers from the earth's surface
• Interior open file to Aena to not report a power outage in El Prat
• The Government promoting the creation of an aerospace consortium Florida. The new entity would welcome companies both Spanish and U.S. for the production of microsatellites
• The company isardSAT is the European leader in satellite data processing
• The Government rebate claims Ryanair to Girona and Reus. The deal is for 5 years and punishes its breach
• The Catalan capital has been selected to host between 14 and 16 June 2012 IATA Slots Conference.
• BAIE has increased investment in R & D by 550%
• Manufactura Moderna de Metales opens factories in Brazil and Russia. And expand its plant in Romania
• The Spanish subsidiary of the multinational Siemens has developed Sicheck.
• Beijing put into orbit the unmanned Shenzhou VIII. The aim is to establish a permanent space station in the style of China International Space Station.
• Finish the mission Mars 500
• A technical failure prevented the Russian station Fobos-Grunt take heading for the red planet.
• Rail and port sectors prepare for the growth derived from the European support for the Mediterranean corridor and Atlantic axis, while logistics companies, aviation and messaging innovate and collaborate to overcome the crisis.
• U.S., China and Russia do not want their airlines have to pay the extra cost to protect the climate.
• NASA launched the Mars robot Curiosity will explore looking for signs of life. This rover has Spanish technology. Specifically, the instrument holder Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) of CSIC

October

• The government postponed the privatization of airports for lack of offers
• Barcelona and Madrid are the sixth and seventh most interesting European cities to locate a business
• The UPC creates an online store for interested companies may purchase their progress
• A former student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and one of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia have been invited to present the results of their final projects with experts from NASA
• FICOSA has created a new company which will start operating in early 2012 and be dedicated to energy efficiency
• Indra and Alcatel, partners in Poland
• Exports experienced in the April-June period an increase of 10.3%.
• Vueling, Ryanair and easyJet are strong at the airport in Barcelona, a rivalry that StarAlliance not consider their project to create a 'hub' intercontinental, is at risk
• The satellite Deimos 1, whose headquarters control is in Boecillo (Valladolid), has signed a contract with the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States.
• The Prime Minister announced yesterday in Brussels that Spain will join the NATO missile shield in 2013
• IberiaExpress, 100% controlled by the airline will operate some of the Spanish and European routes next summer, with a fleet of 4 aircraft, and plans to create 500 jobs in its first year.
• Europe puts into orbit its satellite navigation system

September

• Is the deadline for tenders for the partial privatization of Barajas and El Prat
• Luxiona new Supplier for the Airbus A350
• The global passenger air traffic increased by 5.9% in July
• FCC and Acciona's bid to join the airport of Barajas and El Prat
• W Aeronautica participates in two research projects in the efficiency of air navigation
• La Generalitat wants the technology and research centers of Catalunya with a global mindset
• Qatar wants to join the consortium EADS

August

• The sky in summer
• Terrafugia, a company created by the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology, creates a hybrid between car and plane
• Sener has been awarded the Ruban d'Honneur of the European Business Awards for its project Gemasolar.
• El Prat grows in Latin Amerioca
• Airbus get 785 orders
• Albert Carreras new President of Catalana d'Iniciatives
• Solid Enginyeria prepares his international breakthrough
• La Cambra wants a seat in El Prat
• NASA discovers possible flows of salt water on Mars
• EADS acquires Vizada
• Buildair signs a contract with the Formula 1 Singapore

July

• Indra strengthens its presence in the U.S. Navy ships.
• Brazil, a market opportunity for its current growth.
• Discovered a small star accompanying the Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
• Reus wants to attract other companies with the money paid to Ryanair.
• Abertis has consolidated its presence abroad, and represented 53% of revenues.
• Open dialogue between the State and the Government to give greater autonomy airports in Girona, Reus and Sabadell.
• Catalunya captures 383 million in EU funds for research projects.
NASA closed the era of 'shuttle' without prospect of more ambitious goals.
• The Government expects to collect 11,000 million with Barajas and El Prat.
• Spanair restructuring after losing more than 80 million in 2010.

June

• The Government shall appoint the chairman of Aena after privatization.
• Monographic Education.
• Applus expected to grow 20% this year and exceeded 1,000 million revenue.
• Six companies compete to operate 13 towers Aena
• Indra acquires 77.5% of the Italian Galyleo.
• ALG opens office in Morocco to supply North Africa.
• Solid Enginyeria has invested 100,000 euros to enter the shareholding of a company of electronics, and intends to open a delegation in the global market in the short term.
• Ferrovial and Abertis considering entering the management of Barajas and El Prat.
Barcelona City Council has appointed Josep Maria Pujol, founder and president of production of components for the automotive Ficosa, ambassador of "Barcelona capital emprendedora".
• A total of 20 Spanish companies have already confirmed their participation at the 49th edition of the International Paris Air.
• BAIE presents its latest products and services in the International Exhibition of Le Bourget.
• A total of 73 Catalan companies have gone to the Paris Air Show in search of new opportunities.
• The world of Le Bourget marks the first recovery of the sector after the crisis of the last decade.
• TV3 : Le Bourgets opens today.
• TV3 : BAIE at International Aerospace Fair Trade of Reference.

May

• Employers, unions, chambers of commerce and University of Girona unite to demand management Vilobí.
• European Conference on Space Surveillance.
• Turkey has joined the development of unmanned aircraft Talarion of EADS already working Spain, Germany and France.
• Generel Dynamics move to Madrid headquarters of the company in Europe.
• Monographic FP
• Cassidian appointed Luis Hernandez as head of the Eurofighter program.
• Iñaki Santillana joined the board of Indra.
• OMC declared that the aid that Airbus receives as interest-free loans are not "illegal".
• Two teams of astronomers discovered a new type of star not orbiting any star.

April

• The European Space Agency has awarded Mier Comunicaciones the providing of transponders search and rescue system COSPAS-SARSAT satellites engaged in the Galileo constellation.
• The Government will invest one million euros in the installation of Seu d'Urgell in order it receives commercial flights in 2013.
• Artur Mas has decided to review the plan on airports, aerodromes and heliports.
• CIMNE obtains income amount 7.6 million.
• 50 years met the historic flight of Gagarin, the first human to travel into space and orbited the Earth.
• The FP is allied with the company and look without complex to the university.

March

• Starmax HD, new platform for television, broadcasting contract through the Spanish satellite Hispasat 1E.
• The Committee on Space of the Aerospace Cluster of Catalonia, BAIE, has appointed new chairman Pedro Mier.
• The Mubadala fund, may buy 71% of Aeronnova.
• Secretary of State for Transport, Isaiah Táboas, accompanied by the President of AENA, Juan Ignacio Lema, and the director general Clasa, José Jorge del Castillo, filed last Friday the third expansion phase of the Air Cargo Center Airport Barcelona.

Febrary

• he Training School of Aeronautics VNG visit airport Lleida Alguaire.
• The Universistat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) will create a cluster of aviation management at the Escola d'Enginyeria in the Campus de Sabadell.
• The Kepler space telescope discovered a planetary system similar to ours.
• Participants in the first full simulation of a trip to Mars will stand in a reproduction of the red planet next February 14.
• UPC and GTD collaborate on a European space project.

January

• Indra will install air traffic management systems in Xian and Chengdu control centers.
• The airline IndiGo has ordered 180 units of the A320.
• EADS relaunch UAV.
• El Prat passengers grew faster than Barajas in 2010.
• Aena aims to grow 15% to 2014.
• BAIE submitted his candidature for the concession of Centre of Excellence for unmanned aerial of the aeronautics consortium EADS, to establish the production of this aircraft in Catalonia.
• Sener will build two solar plants in Abu Dhabi.
• Alguaire celebrates its first year 60,000 passengers.
• Seven Catalan scientists recognized by Europe with Advanced Grants.
• "El Cercle del Coneixement Barcelona Breakfast" awarded Telstar with the first prize Nit del Cercle in recognition of its R & D, the internationalization, and industrial activity.
• El Prat may set their rates in 2012 without the tutelage of AENA.
• Ficosa returns to benefits and reorganize its business.
• The University of Barcelona is the only Spanish university belonging to the League of European Research Universities(LERU).
• The European alternative to GPS satellite network, Galileo will not be finished until 2020 for lack of money.

2010

December

• Baie encourages banks to enter the capital of Aena.
• The chaos of the air traffic controllers cost 400 million and threatens tourism.
• Applus + buys Velosi for 105 million.
• Rubalcaba announced financial stability for the best science centers.
• The metropolitan area gained jobs in the world ranking research capital.
• An Ariane 5 rocket put into orbit the Spanish satellite Hispasat 1E, which will extend television services in Western Europe, America and Africa.

November

• Sabadell Airport offers weightless flights of low cost.
• Ficosa last a broad reorganization plan after acquiring the plant of Sony Viladecavalls.
• La Generalitat enter in the capital of Telstar and AirWater Treatment.

Octuber

• Josep Canudas The award, aimed at organizations and individuals dedicated to the promotion of aviation activities and the development of general aviation has been to Fernando de Caralt for his career as president of CASA and as president of BAIE.
• NASA Global Hawk equipped with meteorological instruments.
• Russian researchers Andre Geim and Novoselov Konstantin Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for the development and synthesis graphene.
• Brussels lays the foundations for a new European space policy.
• The spacecraft for Virgin space tourism made its first independent flight.
• The President of Airbus Military has strengthened its control group in Spain and has been leading the European company.
• The Spanish defense industry wants to begin the conquest of territories beyond the borders.
• Ultramagic Builds a basket adapted ballooning to enable the disabled.
• Indra has delivered an American Eurocopter AS350 helicopter simulator for police surveillance.
• A group of university students at UPC for the first time tested the prototypes designed in microgravity in the first edition of proof "Reto Barcelona Gravedad Cero para Vuelos Acrobáticos".

September

• The space experience may help miners in Chile.
• Alguaire goes from 40,000 passengers in 7 months.
• Comsa Emte and Ficosa will transform the industrial complex of Sony Viladecavalls a center of production and R&D in electronics.
• The list QS ranks UB and UAB among the top 200 universities.
• Indra buys 49% Indra Espacio to Thales.
• Garmendia assumes that the 2011 budget will go down, but insists that is not closed.
• El Congres passed a motion urging the law Government reform of the airport model.
Catalan architect strives to build the first robot in the world of private initiative that reaches the moon.
• OMC:After declaring illegal launch aid to Airbus,body is against subsidies to U.S. group.
• EADS Defence & Security is renamed Cassidian.
• Default on payments of the Government threaten the future of Catalan research.
• The Government is promoting the creation of a national champion in military technology.
• The government now says the research and development budget will not be cut.
• Fernando Basabe new chief CEO of Applus+.
• Indra launches a project to detect explosives in public infrastructure.
• La Generalitat and private sponsorship adds to the Festa al Cel 2010.
• EADS designs the world's fastest helicopter.
• The Soviet Antonov is the latest acquisition of the collection of vintage aircraft from the FPAC.
• Discovered the universe's biggest star with a mass of 320 suns.

August

• Starlab develops a meter of water quality from the beaches of Barcelona.
• Fomento plans to release the body scanner at the airport of El Prat.
• Nasa advices doctors of chile for trapped miners.
• Huguet advocates the merger of six technology centers.

July

• The Hayabusa spacecraft returned to Earth with dust.
• The Government will privatize up to 49% of Aena airports.
• The plane Solar Impulse solar-powered, flying for 26 hours, half of them in the dark.
• Indra creates a flight simulator for Eurocopter.
• Corporatejets flights from Girona for businessmen.
• EADS last funding unmanned aircraft 'Talarion'.
• Discovered the universe's biggest star with a mass of 320 suns.
• U.S. authorized BA Iberia merger.
• Sener will participate in the Meteor program.
• Virgin show his new space tourist aircraft.
• The first pilots with college degrees will the URV.

June

• FICOSA allies with the Japanese firm ICHIKOH and creates the leader in rearview mirrors.
• A group of Catalan companies seeks support in China to launch its project of a lunar module.
• COMSA EMTE enters into the USA and explores other markets.
• A cable designed in Catalonia sets the world record in transmitted power (UAB).
• BAIE appears again in Mundo Empresarial Europeo.
• VUELING increases its passenger traffic in more than 100%.

May

• STARLAB appears in ESA's website (see also the BAIE Highlights section)
• The BAIE member RUCKER-LYPSA appears highlighted in AVUI
• The FREENOX engine developed by FIPSA is highlighted in La Vanguardia as "immune" to volcanic ashes
• INDRA will provide geospatial information to 38 European countries
• Cristòfol Jordà is interviewed by Global Talent
• Scientists prepare to explore the darkest universe (UB/ ICE)
• The consolidation of the commercial aviation sector leaves an imprint in the Airport of Barcelona
• The megacomputer of Barcelona will predict the Sahara dust storms (UPC/ BSC)
• The “Deu anys decisius” conference of the Mayor of Barcelona is now available on line
• IBERIA Mantenimiento will do the maintenance of the engines of British Airways’ aircrafts, after the merger
• The industry helps the Catalan economy leave the recession behind
• TELSTAR LIFE SCIENCES buys the French company Usifroid
• How science brings the universe closer to the brain (interview to STARLAB)
• The information and communication technology allowed Spanish companies to save 11,4% in costs in 2009 (ATOS ORIGIN)
• Applus+ gains strength in the United States
• The elections to the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona leave out the entrepreneurs Enric Reyna and Joan Canals
• ABERTIS TELECOM enters the Executive Board of GALILEO Services
• "In times of crisis it’s important to have a Plan B" (Interview to Antoni Sanz of T-SYSTEMS)
• The new road to become an industrial engineer: 10 doubts and considerations
• "The UPC is in the midst of changes that will be transcendental" (Interview to Antoni Giró, Rector of the UPC)
• STARLAB, from space to the brain
• Space Engineering and Biomedicine (NTE-SENER)
• A system is found to calculate the age of stars (UPC)
• SMOS begins scientific operations
• The other renewable: ANORTEC builds a submarine that stores the energy of sea waves
• Eleven Spanish universities develop the future airport scanners (UPC)
• CIMNE opens a subsidiary in Singapore
• RYANAIR threatens to break prices in El Prat with their fares
• The President of ULTRAMÀGIC, Josep Mª Lladó, participates in "Els Matins de TV3"
• A new promotion of chartered engineers visits ARITEX

April

• The Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, BCD and FAD sign an agreement to promote the protection of intellectual property
• Centenary of Aviation in Catalonia: Historical Aircraft Fleet from FPAC fly over Barcelona
• Catalonia in the air
• The Catalan Government allocates 5308 million euros to the R+D+i Plan
• Catalonia approves a Research Plan that stimulates innovation in companies
• Barcelona will have in 2013 the most powerful computer in Europe
• Antoni Giró reelected as UPC Rector
• SONY will launch in the fall a controller with movement sensors
• Is Catalonia an intelligent territory?
• The (Catalan) universities want to increase their ranking
• The MARES chair, developed by NTE-SENER, flies to the ISS

March

• The Aerospace Engineering School of UPC in Terrassa appears in Valor Afegit (TV3)
• The Generalitat de Catalunya creates TALÈNCIA, which merges IFCR, AGAUR and ICREA in a unique agency
• UPC is leading the European project TRAMS on advanced performance processors
• The demand of slots in El Prat Airport increases an 11%
• Investment of 11 million euros in the works to improve the cross runway in El Prat
• British Airways increases its flights from El Prat
• INDRA has net earnings of 196 million euros in 2009
• The Alba Syncrotron is inaugurated in Bellaterra
• “Implica’t” presents 10 candidates to the Board of la Cambra de Comerç
• "Credits and redits of the R+D+i" (by Eugenio Oñate)
• Sony will receive an injection of 15 million euros
• Applus+ buys two American companies
• Barcelona wants to gain momentum in the Shanghai Expo
• UPC students design a robot to send it to the moon
• FP gains strength among the youth
• Excessive offer of technological parks (in Catalonia)

February

• Press conference of Minister José Blanco on the new model for the Barcelona–El Prat Airport
• Miquel Valls presents himself as candidate to the Presidency of Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona
• Avançsa injects 1 million euros in Mapro and takes control of 25% of the company
• Avançsa and Applus+ become part of the Administration Board of Ficosa
• Two candidates for the UPC Rectorate elections
• Last news on the Lleida-Alguaire Airport
• Generalitat de Catalunya to support Vueling and Spanair in El Prat
• El Prat will have its big (maintenance) hangar in November
• The Barcelona City Hall is looking for its engine
• ACC1Ó is considering establishing a Catalan technological pole in India
• Interview to Carles Martí: “AENA must reinvent itself if it wants to survive”
• “On top of bright blue”
• BAIE appears in the Aeronauticos magazine (Issue 220, February 2010)

January

• Inauguration of the new Lleida-Alguaire Airport
• “Double concession”, article by Joaquim Coello on the management of the Barcelona-El Prat Airport
• GTD celebrates a Workshop in Barcelona on the VBR 8x8
• Invited by UPC, Michael Griffin, former NASA Administrator, was in Barcelona in mid-December
• Article by the former UAB Rector on Excelent Universities
• The Rector of UB names two new vicerectors and considers the crisis in the institution ended
• UPC and ESADE participate in the biggest network of innovation in sustainable energy, a European project valued at 450 M€
• The weight of the investment in R&D increases an 8,8% in Catalonia, even with the economic crisis
• The Catalan Autonomous Government rearranges the innovation map in Catalonia
• “Second inauguration” of the new Lleida-Alguaire Airport on the 31st of January
• The Barcelona-El Prat Airport prepares reforms in T2
• The Mayor of Barcelona talks about the city, its challenges and the 2022 Winter Olymplic Games
• The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce presents its International Action Plan for 2010
• The BAIE member Telstar and Avançsa participate in Hexascreen
• A UPC researcher creates a new material from paper residues
• A Catalan firm creates electronic boards to manage high performance devices