Dear colleagues,

Summer is here!  Before many of us head off for a well-deserved break, we’re happy to share the June edition of our Business Unit newsletter,  your monthly dose of team highlights, achievements, and useful updates.

A big thank you to everyone who continues to share content and ideas. Your input keeps this newsletter relevant and engaging for all of us. As always, if you have milestones, project updates, or industry trends to share, we’d love to hear from you for future editions.

Wishing you all a relaxing and well-deserved summer break,  whether you're heading off soon or enjoying the quieter season at work!

Happy reading!

The Newsletter Team

Set to open in September 2025, the company’s new U.S. facility marks a significant milestone. This new location will bring us closer to our North American clients and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements such as ITAR licenses for sensitive components. This international expansion strengthens Alter Technology’s global footprint, which currently focuses primarily on the European market. In a geopolitical context where technological sovereignty and component traceability are increasingly critical, Alter Technology aims to become a trusted partner in the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem.

The first phase of the Challenge has officially come to a close! Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen an incredible wave of creativity and commitment to sustainability across the Business Unit.

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To support its growing operations, Alter France plans to increase the size of its test laboratory in Ramonville-Saint-Agne. This expansion is driven by increasing demand in key markets such as New Space and medical technologies.

A recruitment campaign is underway, targeting highly skilled professionals: electronics engineers, semiconductor experts, PhD-level radiation specialists, and materials scientists.

One of the company’s most significant new offerings is its OSAT service, which provides an end-to-end solution for assembly and qualification of semiconductor components without manufacturing the dies themselves.

We currently test up to 5 million units per year. With our OSAT offering, we aim to reach 10 to 15 million units in the short term. This capacity increase will also strengthen the company’s reliability expertise, including advanced analyses such as Reverse Construction Analysis and Radiations Engineering.

We have obtained the RED+ accreditation, confirming our commitment to excellence in the field of radio equipment testing and certification.

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The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission are fully integrated and, having completed their functional and environmental tests, they are now ready to embark on their journey to the US for launch this summer

Click to read what our company has done in this project

Specialized EEE component procurement training at ESA sharing in-depth knowledge and practical strategies for procuring EEE components in space projects.

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An exclusive deep dive into the ZSOM-F01, the industry’s first radiation-tolerant System on Module (SoM) engineered for the demands of modern satellite systems. Purpose-built for mission-critical applications, the ZSOM-F01 drastically reduces design complexity and accelerates time-to-orbit.

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The MTBF is the expected value of the "mean" operating time between two failures and is regarded as a reliability parameter. The higher the MTBF value, the more reliable the device.

HTV determine the failure rates and failure probabilities of individual components based on the parts list provided by the customer and the planned environmental conditions. 

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Barrelhand Inc., in collaboration with UNESCO and leading scientists and artists worldwide, has unveiled the Memory Disc V3 - a coin-sized artifact designed to preserve humanity's cultural and linguistic heritage for millennia in space.

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TÜVIT shines at the RSA Conference in San Francisco

German and US companies from the industry met at the Security Forum in San Francisco, hosted by IT Security Association Germany (TeleTrusT). Naturally, TÜVIT was right in the thick of it, exchanging ideas with the other participants on cyber security technologies

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From May 14 to 15, experts came together in Paris at CYSAT. This event offered space for the world's biggest space cybersecurity community.

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TÜVIT receives authorization as ITSEF for EUCC certification

We are excited to announce that TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH has been officially authorized to serve as an Information Technology Security Evaluation Facility (ITSEF) for the European Union Cybersecurity Certification (EUCC)..

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In a groundbreaking move set to redefine IT security and data protection across the DACH region, Lufthansa Industry Solutions AS GmbH (LHIND) and TÜV NORD IT Secure Communications GmbH & Co. KG (TÜVIT SeCom) have announced a strategic partnership.

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On May 20–21, representatives from ALTER and TÜV NORD CERT took part in DCD Connect Madrid, an event organized by DatacenterDynamics that brought together leading voices and innovators from across the data center industry.

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The Supervisory Board of TÜV NORD AG has appointed Inga Dransfeld-Haase as the Group's new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Labour Director with effect from 1 September 2025. When she joins the Board of Management, she will also become a member of the Group Executive Committee.

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See the upcoming events for our division over the next few months. Thanks to our enhanced coordination, we are now reaching sectors that were previously inaccessible to us.

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