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CRISA (Computadoras, Redes e Ingeniería , S.A.) is a Spanish company founded in 1985 to design and manufacture electronic equipment and software for space applications: satellites, launchers, orbital infrastructure and space transportation vehicles. Other activities include engineering projects for ground stations, defence and audiovisual sectors.

Crisa, presently employing more than 300 people, is integrated into Astrium S.L., Spain 's leading space company. The company has played a relevant role in most ESA's scientific and Earth observation missions, developing payload processors and hardware and software controllers: data processing units, control units, power conditioning and distribution units, ground segment and test bench equipment.

All of these developments play a vital role in monitoring the Earth's environmental conditions, the observation of natural events, as well as the scientific research of the Universe, the Moon, comets and planets. Some of the main programs that carry this equipment aboard include the ISO, SOHO , Minisat, XMM, Artemis, Smart-1, Integral, Envisat, Helios, MSG, MetOp, Rosetta, or Mars and Venus Express missions. Presently, more than 25 projects are being undertaken for future upcoming missions like GOCE, ATV, Herschel, Planck, Gaia, Mars Science Laboratory or the Vega launcher.