Consortium

THALES ALENIA SPACE

Drawing on over 40 years of experience and a unique combination of skills, expertise, and cultures, Thales Alenia Space delivers cost-effective solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science, and orbital infrastructures. Governments and private industry alike count on Thales Alenia Space to design satellite-based systems that provide anytime, anywhere connections and positioning, monitor our planet, enhance management of its resources, and explore our Solar System and beyond. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping build a better, more sustainable life on Earth. A joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space also teams up with Telespazio to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, which offers a complete range of services. Thales Alenia Space posted consolidated revenues of approximately €2.2 billion in 2023 and has around 8,600 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US.

THALES ROMANIA

Thales has been present in Romania for more than 20 years. Over the years, our company has grown and diversified its portfolio of activities, and today we are a central hub for software development and engineering, serving customers in all our major markets: Defence & Security, Aerospace, Space, and Digital Identity & Security. With our local experts, Thales has unparalleled capability to design and deploy equipment, systems and services to meet the most complex requirements.

KP LABS

KP Labs is an innovative New Space company based in Poland. In 2016, a group of engineers and scientists associated with the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice decided to turn their passion into reality and start a company that would combine science with business. Our company is a team of new technology enthusiasts who do not think that the sky is the limit.

TARIDES

Tarides is an international software company with offices in Cambridge (UK), Paris (France), and Chennai (India), founded in 2018 by pioneers of systems and functional programming. We have a worldwide presence with collaborators working remotely from the US, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and across Europe. We have a solid academic background with connections to the University of Cambridge, Inria, and IIT Madras. Our diverse team of 60+ people performs groundbreaking innovation, feature development, and crucial maintenance of OCaml-based projects.

UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB) assumes the mission to train specialists in different technical fields that are able to use valuable scientific, technical and cultural knowledge, to contribute to the technological, economic and social-cultural progress of the Romanian society and the contemporary world. UPB ensures a performant education, developed and perfected through a complex research activity, continuing the tradition of the Polytechnic School of Bucharest, according to the exigencies and the means offered by the modern information society.