Altec

Altec (Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company) does engineering, logistics and operations work for human spaceflight and robotic exploration. It runs ISS support for ASI (the Permanent Multipurpose Module) and Columbus training, logistics and operations support for ESA, and operates an ISS Engineering Support Center. It also hosts the ExoMars rover control centre and the Turin mission control room, and processes science data for programs such as Gaia and Euclid.

In 2026 it won a roughly €60 million contract to support ISS services through 2029, and it has been assigned operational management of the planned lunar habitat, which Thales Alenia Space will build. It keeps liaison offices at NASA and ESA.

Set up in 2001 on the initiative of Alenia Spazio, ASI and local institutions. Thales Alenia Space Italia holds 63.75% and ASI 36.25%. Headcount is roughly 100 to 200.