EADS in Backnang
Division: Astrium
Business Unit: Satellites
Company name: Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
Website: www.tesat.de
Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
Gerberstraße 49
D-71522 Backnang
T.: +49 7191 930 0
F.: +49 7191 930 18 35
www.tesat.de
Focus of Activities at the Plant
Tesat-Spacecom manufactures subsystems and equipment for telecommunication via satellite, focusing on travelling-wave amplifiers, channel amplifiers, filters, output multiplexers and waveguide switches.
The work programme also includes on-board processors, MIC units, modulators, demodulators, semi-conductor amplifiers, semiconductor switching matrices, and optical terminals. The company is also operating successfully in the service sector with the agency field for space components.
Overview of the Site
Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG in Backnang, around 30 km from Stuttgart, is located here with development, production, sales and commercial functions.
Space engineering in Backnang has a track record of more than three decades. German experts were already being commissioned by American space company Hughes (now Boeing) to supply the communication system for the satellite Intelsat IV/F3 at the end of the 1960s. Shortly afterwards, this was followed by the order for the German-French Symphonie satellite programme. In 1983, the company became DFS consortium partner and therefore became responsible for the development and production of the payload for the Copernicus telecommunications satellite operated by German postal service Deutsche Bundespost. Around 400 projects have been successfully concluded in Backnang since space activities started up. These include NASA projects and research into laser communication between satellites stationed in space.
In recent years, Tesat-Spacecom has been reinforcing its position in the market for travelling-wave amplifiers for all standard frequency bands to a global market share of more than 40 percent. The company also supplies highly reliable components for the ISS International Space Station. Another key project is the Artemis satellite financed by ESA, used to test optical communication between satellites and the ground station in Tenerife. Tesat-Spacecom is involved in this mission with the Silex communication system for optical free space communication. Moreover, a modern optical terminal has been under development in Backnang since the end of the 1990s and this will be used in systems for transmitting multimedia services. The first terminal will be supplied at the end of 2005 and is scheduled for launch on the Terra-SAR satellite in 2006.
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