AIAD - Federazione Aziende Italiane per L'Aereospazio, la Difesa e la Sicurezza

SUSTAINING ENGINEERING
ALTEC provides engineering support services to ASI for activities related to the “Permanent Multipurpose Module” (PMM) docked to the International Space Station. The support is provided by the PMM engineering team through the ALTEC “Mission Support Center” (MSC) connected to the NASA Mission Control Center in Houston, via the ASINet network. ALTEC MSC also supports the Orbital CYGNUS mission

ISS TLO – TRAINING, LOGISTICS & OPERATIONS SUPPORT
ALTEC is responsible for providing directly to ESA the Training, Logistics and Operations Support Services for the ISS.   Moreover, ALTEC operates one of the ISS “Engineering Support Centers” (ESC). The ESC is connected via the IGS-ESA network to the Columbus Control Center in Germany, and through it to all ISS European centers.

ISS EUROPEAN LOGISTICS CENTER
In the frame of the Integrated Logistics Support provided to ESA elements on ISS, ALTEC operates as Ground Logistics Center. ALTEC is responsible for Logistics Engineering Support, Inventory of on ground and on orbit assets, Launch Packaging Preparation and Execution, Ground Logistics Support and Transportation, Spare Management and Warehousing.

CREW TRAINING
ALTEC is responsible for ISS Training Services to ESA. Global Technical coordination and selected tasks are carried out by ALTEC instructors who work on a permanent basis at the ESA European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.

COLUMBUS FLIGHT CONTROL TEAM
ALTEC supports the activities of the Columbus Control Centre (Col-CC) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany, through its permanent staff responsible for the Flight Director and Columbus System stations and the management of on-board computers.

MEDICINE & BIOTECHNOLOGY
ALTEC and Space Biomedicine : bringing on Earth Space methodologies and techniques, for human wellness and health. ALTEC  actively collaborates with the national and international science community to support science experiments on-orbit and on ground, also by promoting its Neutral Buoyancy Test Facility  for gravitational physiology.

HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT
ALTEC provides engineering support to ASI for the management and implementation of research activities on board of the International Space Station, supports the missions of Italian astronauts and provides European bonus food.

SPACE EXPLORATION – EXOMARS
Under the ESA “EXOMARS” program, ALTEC is responsible for the design, development and management of the “Rover Operations Control Centre” (ROCC). The ROCC will be the center in charge of the monitoring and control of the system and science operations of the Rover on the Mars surface. It includes also the “Science Operation Centre” (SOC), carrying out selected science analyses.

MARS SAMPLE RETURN
ALTEC is consolidating its role as a key player in Robotic deep space exploration with Mars Sample Return – Sample Fetch Rover (MSR-SFR) mission. ALTEC will further enhance and evolve its ROCC to support new challenging mission requirements. ROCC will serve as the laying foundation for the MSR-SFR Ground Control Center or GCC, for which ALTEC is responsible for the design, development, management and operations activities.

SPACE EXPLORATION – MMTD Mars & Moon Terrain Demonstrator
ALTEC performs technological innovation research activities, relevant to environment recognition, navigation and control, development of elements for environment modeling with 3D reconstruction and man-machine interfaces.

IXV MISSION
Under the ESA program of the IXV atmospheric re-entry demonstrator, ALTEC has responsibility for the design, construction and subsequent operations of the ground segment of the mission. The ground segment includes the whole infrastructure needed for the mission support: the Mission Control Center at ALTEC, the Ground Stations, including the one on board of the spacecraft recovery ship, and the communications network.

SPACE RIDER MISSION
Leveraging on the heritage of the IXV mission and on the experience gathered in the frame of data processing activities, ALTEC supports ESA’s SPACE RIDER mission encompassing the roles of Payload and Landing Control Center. ALTEC will act as a gateway for all Payloads that will be flying aboard this new European re-entry vehicle and will take care of guaranteeing a safe return to earth and landing of the spacecraft and its cargo.

CUBESATS
ALTEC has matured important heritage and know-how in designing and operating missions’ ground segment. Leveraging on the above ALTEC aims at becoming a key player in the provision of end-to-end industry-class ground segment and operations services for CubeSats. ALTEC services encompass: Mission Operations Control Service; Overall Operations Control Center design; Mission Planning concept development; Payload Data Processing.

SUBORBITAL FLIGHTS
ALTEC  has been awarded by Malaysian Companies some studies on the various aspects relevant to suborbital flights for microgravity experiments, space tourism and point to point transportation, with particular focus on ground infrastructure, spaceport and safety.

BIG DATA – DATA MANAGEMENT – GAIA
Gaia is an ESA space astrometry mission to create an extremely precise three-dimensional map of about one billion stars throughout our Galaxy and beyond. ALTEC is responsible for the development and system operations of the Gaia Data Processing Centre – Turin (DPCT), the Italian node of the ESA data centers network.

SPACE CULTURE PROMOTION
An important activity carried out by ALTEC is the promotion of space culture through the organization of exhibitions, events and guided tours of its facilities. These initiatives are for the most part carried out in close collaboration and coordination with ASI, ESA and other agencies and organizations in the Piedmont region.