Who we are

The TéSA Cooperative Laboratory was created in 2004 as a non-profit association under the French Act of 1901, with the corporate purpose, enshrined in its articles, of conducting research in the field of space and aeronautical telecommunications and related fields. The TéSA association has academic associate members such as the École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-Supaéro), the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (Toulouse-INP), the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (IPSA)  and the Institut des Mines Télécom Atlantique (IMT Atlantique) as well as partner members: manufacturers such as Thales Alenia Space (TAS) and Collins Aerospace (RCF), and the French Space Agency (CNES).

The association functions as a research laboratory, managed by a Scientific Committee and a Board of Directors, and welcomes research engineers as well as teachers/researchers from the academic associate members, who can come and spend part of their research time in TéSA. In addition, some fifteen PhD and post-doctoral students are affiliated with TéSA and supervised by professors from the academic associate members.

Itsfield of expertise include digital communications, signal and image processing, and networks. The fields in which TéSA studies and theses apply are space communications systems, aeronautical communications systems, Earth observation, positioning and navigation, and related fields.