Products and Services
Originally started as a test service provider and design center for larger companies, Alta has gradually developed its own manufacturing and quality assurance capability along with a large array of testing facilities. The company offers propulsion systems and energy products, design and simulation services for space and industrial applications, specialized engineering capabilities, and top class space simulation facilities suited to propulsion, spacecraft and subsystem testing.
Space
The main business lines of Alta are:
- Electric Propulsion
- Chemical Propulsion
- Aerothermodynamics
- Space Vacuum Simulation and Testing Services
- Space Mission Design and Simulation
The electric propulsion product lines include the micronewton FEEP system, the low-power Hall thruster HT-100, the xenon resistojet XRT-50.
Earth
Since 2003, industrial applications of plasma sources and other non-space activities were introduced. Along with space technologies, Alta non-space activities include: