Stephane HEINRICH

Stéphane HEINRICH was graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, and worked almost 20 years, as a consultant for several European aerospace companies : French Test Flight Centre, Sextant Avionics (now THALES), Hispano-Suiza & Pyroalliance (now SAFRAN), EADS Sogerma (now Sabena Technics) in the aerospace domain , INTA (Spain), Matra Marconi / Astrium , Techspace (now SAFRAN Belgium) and Aerospatiale /Alcatel /Thales Alenia in the space domain.

Consequently his experience was acquired along more than 20 different projects mostly in avionics (air combat cockpits RAFALE , NH90, Tigre, M346 and VIP cabins) and in optical space instruments (GOMOS , HELIOS II, IASI) and has built afterwards an expertise in satellite systems mostly in command and attitude control and propulsion systems.

He has been involved in European Space Agency (ESA) programs at industrial prime management offices in suppliers management and quality assurance (ATV Avionics equipments, PLANCK Satellite, SENTINEL-3 equipments) .

He is still currently responsible of suppliers QUALITY Management on Sentinel-3 Satellite : Platfrom Equipments (Avionics & Propulsion) and Payload Instruments (SLSTR, MWR) and preparing the Satellites SAFETY Data Package for Range Submission process for ROCKOT/plesetsk and VEGA/Kourou.

Acting from ALTRAN Portuguese entity in close location to THALES ALENIA Space plant in Cannes, he has internal responsibility as QUALITY and SAFETY expert for local ALTRAN engineering offices working for division customers (Thales Alenia Space, Eurocopter , Dassault Aviation) and involved in promotion of space business for ALTRAN Portugal and European entities.

Stephane , is an AIR and SPACE fan enthusiast collecting a lot of technical and historical data , in addition to his responsibility inside ALTRAN Group for the European AEROSPACE ans DEFENSE division, he is editing a weekly Space NEWSLETTER and managing internal ALTRAN INNOVATIVE RESEARCH projects oriented on SPACE DEBRIS issues.