Company Profile Elital Srl (the name means for Elettronica Italiana, www.elital.com) was founded in 1986 and has rapidly expanded its capabilities in the design and manufacturing of mechanical, electrical and electronic equipment’s, subsystems and complete systems serving the civil commercial and professional space market. The strength of Elital stands in the mix of skills, available technologies and people experience. Besides the company’s own personnel, Elital has established good professional relationships with experts coming from both the space and non-space sectors, and with the local (L’Aquila) University. Internally, Elital has progressively built a capable engineering design group that can handle both mechanical and electrical requirements in a cost-effective manner exploiting the features of most modern CAD tools. On the manufacturing side Elital is quite strong in five main areas, where the Company has invested, ad continues to invest, on modern and capable manufacturing tools and processes. The five manufacturing areas are research & Development; mechanical workshop, which is equipped with rather unusual, and hard to find elsewhere, tooling machines; carpentry workshops, which is mainly devoted to the production of shelters, vans, casing, racks, for ground mobiles and fixed installations for both civil and military applications; PCB design and production, for both professional space and non-space use. Elital is a current top quality and specialized PCB supplier of renown national aerospace companies; Painting and Silkscreen: where Elital owns proprietary processes and skills enabling a cost effective production of panels cleverly supporting the human engineering aspects of the design; Plants: this including both the internal plants (Elital handles a variety of manufacturing processes involving the careful management of the infrastructures) and the intervention on externally supplied and installed equipment and systems at customer premises. Since its creation, Elital strong points have been on the design and development of test equipment, and the design, manufacturing, installation and testing of small and large ground Earth stations.