ABOUT US

We Are a Rocket Company

OUR MISSION

We develop innovative engines to serve small satellite platforms. We work with creativity, determination and commitment to open unexplored mobility forms to small satellites and unlimited windows to access space.

OUR VISION

We dream the day when each of us will have a personal satellite to move in space and to look at the Earth with new eyes.

WHAT WE DO

We provide simple, robust, versatile, and customizable cold gas, chemical, and electric propulsion systems for small satellites, IOS platforms, microlaunchers, small upper stages, and sounding rockets.

FACILITIES

Since 2021, T4i has been headquartered in Monselice (Padua, Italy), in a facility designed to support advanced research, testing, and scalable production. The site covers 1,600 m² indoors and 1,600 m² outdoors, combining office, engineering, and workshop spaces.

Inside, dedicated areas host activities in micro-propulsion, electronics, chemical propulsion, and additive manufacturing. Specialized labs include vacuum chambers for plasma and cold gas thrusters, an ISO7 clean room with ISO5 laminar flow bench, and a fully equipped chemical workshop for hybrid, monopropellant, and bipropellant systems. A control room enables real-time monitoring of operations and experimental data, while a restricted working zone is used for classified programs.

The outdoor area is devoted to HTP concentration and experimental testing, with test benches for thrusters up to 10 kN.

OUR VALUES

CREATIVITY

We believe in creativity as the engine to make dreams reality.

SUSTAINABILITY

We believe in human, economic, and environmental sustainability to ensure next generation’s future.

TEAM

We believe in the team as the core element where diversities converge in a unique, strong, unified, and inclusive identity.

DETERMINATION

We believe in unconditioned determination as the mean to tear down all the obstacles.

ETHICS

We believe in ethics as harmony among people, companies, and society.

RESPONSIBILITY

We believe that individual and teams should share goals and achievements and be responsible of their actions and behaviours.

OUR STORY

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2006

Start

UniPD Space Propulsion Group is created.
Starting work on electric and chemical propulsion systems.
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2014

Constitution

T4i – Technology for Propulsion and Innovation is established by the University of Padua Team.
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2016

Award

T4i wins the Italian Award “Premio dei Premi” in the innovation field.
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2018

Award

T4i wins the Italian Master Startup Award and the Italian Innovation Award “Premio dei Premi”
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2021

Launch

T4i goes in Space for the first time with REGULUS Electric Propulsion System.
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2022

Flight

The first flight test of an innovative sounding rocket for access-to-space applications for small satellites was successfully performed.
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2024

Launch

T4i PERSEUS cold gas system was launched within the ASI IPERDRONE.0 mission.
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2024

Launch

T4i IANUS cold gas system was launched within the ESA Hera Milani mission.

OUR PARTNERS