Tesat-Spacecom

The Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG (Tesat) is a German company situated in Backnang, which is an independent subsidiary of EADS Astrium GmbH and manufactures communication payloads for satellites.
Products
The product portfolio of Tesat ranges from individual components to additional payloads and complete systems. These are supplied by Tesat to satellite manufacturers worldwide. The devices and systems which are manufactured for the telecommunications satellite include high performance amplifiers and . Other product segments of Tesat are channel amplifiers, filters, multiplexers, modulators, transmitters and TTC transponder.
Laser Communication Terminal
Since 1997 Tesat develops and supplies devices for wideband optical communications in space, known as Laser Communication Terminal (LCT). These devices allow point-to-point data links with high data volume. With a range of 45,000 km and speeds of more than 5 gigabits per second is communication via laser 10 times faster than before with radio waves. This turns Tesat into the international technology leader in laser communication.
Parts Agency
Since 1972, the company has a parts agency, which organizes an annual rate of 500,000 parts orders for internal and external customers. Here are 65 customers in over 20 countries, supplying or assisted in their procurement. All materials and components from Tesat subject to the ECSS standards and are certified nationally and internationally.
History
*1949: AEG (Allgemeine Electrizitäts Gesellschaft) Fernmeldetechnik is transferred from Berlin to Backnang.
*1955: Telefunken GmbH: AEG Richtfunk moved from Ulm to Backnang.
*03/01/1967: Foundation of AEG Telefunken AG, in the field of aerospace they focused on development, distribution, assembly and testing.
*1971 The AEG Telefunken AG launched its first space project called Intelsat IV
*1982: It was the change of corporate form into a GmbH, AEG Telefunken Nachrichtentechnik GmbH. AEG-Telefunken remained the majority with 51% of the shares. The other 49% went to a consortium of Bosch, Mannesmann and Allianz.
*1983: AEG-Telefunken reached a settlement and collected and distributed the shares of the copartners. The company now operated under the name ANT Nachrichtentechnik GmbH.
*1989: Together with MBB / Erno, which in 1990 faded into the , ANT Nachrichtentechnik completed the first satellite project: DFS Kopernikus.
*1995: Conversion of ANT Nachrichtentechnik GmbH in Bosch Telecom GmbH.
*1997: With the project Tempo, Bosch Telecom GmbH started its mass production of traveling wave tube amplifiers.
*2000: The Bosch product sector aerospace is introduced into a separate company, Bosch SatCom GmbH.
*2001: Foundation of Tesat Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG: In November 2001, Bosch SatCom GmbH renamed as Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co.KG and was acquired in December 2001 by the EADS Astrium GmbH. Tesat was expanded into a competence center for the payloads of satellite communications and remained as an independent company.
*2006: For the German satellite SAR-Lupe, which is a project of the Bundeswehr, Tesat provided the communications payload.
*2007: The research satellite NFIRE of the U.S. Air Force is equipped with a Laser Communication Terminal (LCT) from Tesat Spacecom. At an optical test in March 2008, the NFIRE produced a first successful laser data link at 5.5 gigabyte per second with TerraSAR-X, a German earth observation satellite.

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