On Wednesday, Thales unveiled the world's first solar-powered air traffic control radar station, a project carried out in collaboration with Chile's General Directorate of Civil Aviation.
This radar system, designed for civil and military air traffic control, detects both slow and fast targets such as helicopters, commercial aircraft and jets.
The site will also help monitor the commercial flights operated daily by Chile's DGAC.
Located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, at an altitude of over 3,500 metres, the station will run exclusively on sustainable energy, exploiting the region's high solar incidence.
Featuring 340 strategically positioned panels, the station has a maximum production capacity of around 960 kWh per day, covering an area of 10,000 m2.
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Thales is one of the European leaders in manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipment and systems for the defense and security, aerospace, and transportation sectors. Net sales break down by product group as follows:
- defense and security systems (53.4%): C4I defense and security systems (control and monitoring systems, communication, protection, cyber-security, and other systems), defense mission systems, naval systems, electronic war systems, drones, air operation systems (air defense, air surveillance), ground defense systems and missiles;
- aerospace systems (28.4%): avionics equipment (cockpit, cabin multimedia, and simulation equipment), space systems (satellites, payloads, etc.);
- digital identification and security solutions (18.2%).
Besides, the group owns a 35% stake in Naval Group (manufacture of naval equipment for defense and nuclear energy sectors).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.5%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Europe (24.8%), the United States and Canada (14%), Asia (9.4%), Near and Middle East (6%), Australia and New Zealand (4.4%) and other (5.3%).
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