The Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics is a national non-profit cultural association, recognized as the second oldest scientific aerospace society in the world.
TUTCO SureHeat has over 55 years of experience in developing innovative high performance heating solutions, for decades defining the benchmark for electrical air heaters used in hypersonic wind-tunnel applications. Our solutions cover power levels from just a few kilowatts to multi-megawatt systems, delivering ultra-fast heat-up times of only a few seconds and reliably achieving air temperatures up to 1100 °C. Each heater is a fully customized, application-specific design, engineered to meet the most demanding pressure, temperature, and performance requirements. The heater design is based on the so-called serpentine heating element, which the company developed back in 1968 and refined to perfection over all those years.
Originally part of OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc., the business was acquired by Smiths Group in 2017 and integrated into its FlexTek division. Today, TUTCO SureHeat is part of the TUTCO Heating Group, the world’s largest supplier of open coil heating elements, producing up to 38,000 heaters daily. The company holds about 80% of U.S. patents in this technology and serves a wide range of industries. Manufactured in the USA, TUTCO SureHeat air- and gas- heaters have a legacy in being used for developments in the aerospace, in the aviation and the gas turbine industry worldwide.
To learn how TUTCO SureHeat can support your hypersonic testing program, please contact our expert team.
EvoMisure specialises in high-precision measurement solutions for aerodynamic testing and advanced flow analysis. As part of the Evolution Measurement Group and based in Milan, the company represents leading technologies including Guildline Instruments, streamwise, and EvoScann®.
With a strong focus on aerodynamics, EvoMisure delivers bespoke multi-point pressure and temperature measurement systems tailored for wind tunnel testing, on-vehicle and on-aircraft testing, and complex flow diagnostics. Their solutions enable high-resolution data acquisition critical for aerodynamic development, CFD validation, and performance optimisation.
Complementing these capabilities, EvoMisure integrates Guildline’s industry-leading temperature and resistance measurement instruments, providing ultra-high accuracy in thermal characterisation, sensor calibration, and precision electrical measurement. This ensures complete confidence in both aerodynamic and thermal data sets, particularly in demanding research and calibration environments.
From system design and implementation to local service and technical support, EvoMisure supports customers throughout the entire measurement lifecycle.
Serving industries such as aerospace, motorsport, and advanced research, EvoMisure partners with organisations that require cutting-edge aerodynamic insight and precision measurement to optimise performance, improve efficiency, and gain a competitive edge.
Tekna is a global leader in advanced thermal plasma systems, with over 250 installations worldwide. For the aerospace and defense sectors, Tekna’s PlasmaSonic Plasma Wind Tunnels provide a premier platform for testing advanced materials under the extreme high-enthalpy conditions characteristic for hypersonic flight regimes, including atmospheric reentry and advanced defense applications.
Our state-of-the-art systems generate plasma flows within wide customizable operating windows, exposing material samples to severe, yet exceptionally stable and repeatable, thermal environments. Tekna offers versatile torch technologies tailored to specific testing needs:
By providing precise control over plasma enthalpy, heat flux, and stagnation pressure, Tekna empowers researchers and engineers to accurately characterize high-temperature material responses. Whether optimizing thermal protection systems (TPS) for survivability or engineering components for controlled demise, Tekna’s plasma solutions are essential for advancing the next generation of hypersonic technologies.
GridPro is a leading provider of high-fidelity structured meshing solutions for advanced CFD simulations, with strong expertise in hypersonic and high-speed aerospace applications. GridPro’s topology-driven meshing technology enables the rapid generation of accurate multi-block structured meshes for complex geometries such as scramjets, re-entry vehicles, hypersonic inlets, nozzles, lifting bodies, and thermal protection systems.
For hypersonic CFD, GridPro delivers robust boundary-layer resolution, precise shock capturing and shock fitting capabilities, and high-quality meshes suitable for viscous, reacting, and high-temperature flow simulations. Its automated topology adaptation and scalable meshing workflows significantly reduce mesh generation time while improving simulation reliability and solver convergence.
GridPro supports aerospace organizations, research laboratories, and engineering teams in accelerating hypersonic vehicle design, aerodynamic analysis, heat transfer studies, and propulsion development. By combining automation with engineering accuracy, GridPro helps engineers efficiently handle the demanding meshing requirements of next-generation hypersonic flight systems.
Space It Up! connects Italy’s leading universities, research centers, and companies to advance space research and technology. Through the Space It Up! Program, funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), it explores nine key research areas, ranging from robotics and autonomous systems to human spaceflight, planetary resources, life sciences, and advanced habitats. By combining academic expertise with industrial know-how, the program addresses critical challenges such as resource mapping, in-situ resource utilization, astronaut health, and bioregenerative life-support systems. Shared infrastructures and coordinated strategies foster collaboration, accelerate technological development, and strengthen space capabilities, contributing to a more sustainable space economy.
The CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research Centre) is a public-private research organization. Its shareholders include the National Research Council (as majority shareholder), together with other public entities and leading Italian aerospace companies.
The Italian Government has entrusted CIRA with the implementation and management of the National Aerospace Research Program (PRO.R.A.). Over the years, this program has enabled the development of advanced aerospace research infrastructures and high-level scientific expertise, establishing CIRA as an internationally recognized center of excellence in aeronautics and space.
The introduction of a new generation of ambitious programs, defined within the updated PRO.R.A. approved in 2020, marks the beginning of a long-term strategic cycle focused on the creation of new laboratories and test facilities, as well as research and technological development activities.
CIRA’s programs address key strategic areas, including sustainable and safe air transport, advanced air mobility, innovative propulsion systems, space access and exploration, environmental monitoring, and hypersonic flight technologies, considered a strategic frontier for future aerospace capabilities.
