private company limited by shares industry aerospace automotive defence nuclear fusion founded 2004 headquarters coimbra portugal area served worldwide products esu pandora small vacuum chamber services thermal engineering structural engineering cad design embedded systems advanced materials r & d technology transfer number of employees 20 website www.activespacetech.com active space technologies is a portuguese company with main offices in portugal headquartered in coimbra which offers products and services in the fields of thermo mechanical engineering thermal and structural analysis design manufacturing and testing electronics engineering embedded systems digital control as well as management support services for technology transfer and development projects project management systems engineering project coordination . the company operates in the global markets of aerospace defence automotive nuclear fusion and scientific sectors . its offices are in coimbra and lisbon portugal southampton united kingdom and noordwijk the netherlands . founded in 2004 the company s work and expansion has been reported in several media including expresso correio da manh the wall street journal di rio as beiras p blico di rio de coimbra rdp antena 1 jornal de not cias tsf ag ncia lusa r dio universidade de coimbra el mundo rtp 2 r dio renascen a etc. 1 milestones edit in october 2008 bruno carvalho ceo of active space technologies was awarded the 2nd edition of young professionals entrepreneurship prize while he attended the international astronautical congress iac in glasgow . in july 2008 active space technologies become a member of afia the portuguese association of automotive suppliers . in november 2007 active space technologies opened through a joint venture with local entrepreneurs its german associate company active space technologies gmbh . in june 2007 active space technologies was given the young entrepreneur of the year award by the portuguese national association of young entrepreneurs anje . in march 2007 active space technologies agreed to provide 6 engineer months of structural engineering support to the mars gravity biosatellite a project jointly run by mit and georgia tech . in november 2006 active space technologies was granted a contract to provide expertise to nuclear fusion project iter . in may 2006 following its expansion strategy active space technologies moved into a new office in the instituto pedro nunes ipn university of coimbra s business incubator and technology transfer centre . references edit active space technologies in the press archived may 25 2009 at the wayback machine . external links edit official website facebook twitter linked in rss retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title active space technologies & oldid 742430547 categories portuguese companies established in 2004companies based in berlinengineering companiestechnology companies established in 2004hidden categories articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 17 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view