Thales Electronic Systems GmbH, formerly Thales Defence & Security Systems GmbH, is a wholly owned subsidiary of

Thales Group Thales S.A., Trade name, trading as Thales Group (), is a French multinational corporation, multinational aerospace and defence industry, defence corporation specializing in electronics. It designs, develops and manufactures a wide variety of aer ...

. The company holds a number of patents related to ion propulsion and produces a number of electronic components. The company participated in three projects of the ARTES programme: * AIN - developing

aluminium nitride Aluminium nitride ( Al N) is a solid nitride of aluminium. It has a high thermal conductivity of up to 321 W/(m·K) and is an electrical insulator. Its wurtzite phase (w-AlN) has a band gap of ~6 eV at room temperature and has a potent ...

traveling-wave tube A traveling-wave tube (TWT, pronounced "twit") or traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA, pronounced "tweeta") is a specialized vacuum tube that is used in electronics to amplify radio frequency (RF) signals in the microwave range. It was invented ...

. * Q100W - for 100W Q-Band traveling-wave tube. * VHPS FO - developing light, very high power, 500W

S band The S band is a designation by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for a part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum covering frequencies from 2 to 4 gigahertz (GHz). Thus it crosses the conventiona ...

traveling-wave tube.

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HEMPT 3050 HEMPT 3050 is a satellite station-keeping Ion thruster, currently selected for the use on German Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence ...

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