Vital to the success of ETOA Aerospace and Solutions has been the technical staff’s wide-ranging expertise and its ability both to stay abreast of and to shape new technological developments and the rapidly evolving space systems associated with the corporation’s mission and its program offices.
ETOA Solutions research and assessment covers three broad investigative areas: electronics and photonics; space innovations; and Information Security applications. All together, ETOA Solutions operates more than 80 specialized laboratories for research and testing in todays leading fields of discovery.
Throughout our lifespan, the laboratories have been led by scientists from diverse backgrounds and have been best known for their technical leadership in rocket propulsion; reentry physics; high-power chemical lasers; rocket plume phenomenology; electric propulsion; composite materials; nondestructive evaluation; space and atmospheric environment; spacecraft surface behavior; space materials survivability; hyperspectral imaging; sensors for photoreconnaissance; millimeter-wave technology; advanced microelectronic devices; spacecraft and launch vehicle batteries; LIDAR; atomic clock research and development; and space tribology.
In the near future it is anticipated that ETOA Aerospace and Solutions will build upon its current capabilities and address the new key issues facing the country’s space science community, including further miniaturization of electronic devices; wave properties of atoms; quantum computing and cryptography; power generation and storage; ultrashort pulsed lasers and multifunctional materials; nanomaterials; and more agile space systems.