About us

ALTEC – Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company – is the Italian center of excellence for the provision of engineering and logistics services to support operations and utilization of the International Space Station and the development and implementation of planetary exploration missions. ALTEC is a public-private company owned by the major European space company, Thales Alenia Space and the Italian Space Agency, ASI. It is based in Turin (Italy) and has liaison offices at NASA and ESA.

ALTEC provides a broad portfolio of services ranging from engineering and logistics support, training of astronauts, to the support to scientific teams in the management and processing of scientific data, the development and management of the ground segment of space programs and the promotion of space culture. In particular, for what concern the management and processing of scientific data, ALTEC has acquired a significant role in the development of a broader set of value-added services related to the operational management of the Data Management Centers (processing, storage and distribution) and Mission Support Centers. Particular attention has been paid to the optimization of the interface with end users of the systems through the development of effective management and application products. This expertise is testified by the key role of the company in the Gaia-DPCT Programme, being in charge for the management of the overall HW, SW infrastructure and DB required for running the scientific SW components, which represents part of Italian Contribution to the ESA Gaia mission, after having designed and developed the centre itself.

Know more about us at https://www.altecspace.it/.

Main role in the project

ALTEC will contribute to the project as System Integrator and Application Developer. As System Integrator will provide competences needed to integrate existing and developed tools, applications and framework in a whole integrate system suitable for the EOSC platform. As Application Developer will develop and increase the functionalities of the applications, databases and framework provided by ALTEC that will be integrated to build the Astro-Planet services. In addition, we could contribute to develop machine learning tools upon the ALTEC Experimental Development Platform that is ready for that scope.