Directory / Space Hardware / Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG Subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space Founded 1949 · Backnang, Germany Updated Aug 31, 2026
Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG Payloads and subsystems provider
Company website Developer and manufacturer of satellite communication payloads, specializing in laser communication terminals (e.g., SCOT family) and RF/microwave equipment for commercial, institutional, and defense space missions.
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Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG customers & supported companies Lockheed Martin — customer / mission user Tell me more Lockheed Martin selected TESAT and TESAT Government to provide SCOT80 optical communication terminals (OCT) for a demonstration on a future GPS III spacecraft; TESAT is supplying SCOT80 OCT hardware for integration onto Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft.
Relationship research record Telesat — customer / program user Tell me more Through selection of TESAT by MDA for the Telesat Lightspeed program, TESAT is supplying optical communications components/subsystems that will be used on Telesat's Lightspeed satellites (TESAT serves Telesat via MDA integration).
Relationship research record Airbus — customer / system integrator Tell me more TESAT has delivered laser communication terminals and other telecommunications payload equipment for satellites built by Airbus (Airbus prime programs such as EDRS/Alphasat/Sentinel-related work historically referenced in TESAT flight heritage).
Relationship research record Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG program partners European Space Agency (ESA) — mission user / program partner Tell me more TESAT has flight heritage supplying laser communication terminals (LCTs) and optical comms hardware for ESA missions (e.g., Sentinel-1A/1B, Sentinel-2A/2B, EDRS-A); ESA missions and their primes have used TESAT LCT hardware on operational Earth observation spacecraft.
Relationship research record ID Quantique — program partner / supplier Tell me more ID Quantique supplies QRNG chipsets and space-qualified electronics for the cryptographic key generation system in the EAGLE-1 QKD satellite payload (ESA/EC-supported LEO mission led by SES Techcom; contribution announced 2023, launch targeted ~2026).
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