As the year 2010 starts, Tony Lancaster and Frank Niehaus are pleased to announce that LSE has purchased the Dutch company Aurora Technology B.V with effect from 1st January 2010. Aurora provides space science and engineering services to ESA, both at ESTEC in Holland and ESAC in Spain. Aurora is a company very similar to LSE both from a cultural and also a structural perspective. In the past two years, LSE and Aurora have built an excellent working relationship which led to this merger. We are very much looking forward to utilising this synergy to expand our business.

The two companies have cooperated together to win a place on the frame contract for the provision of engineering services to the ESTEC Earth Observation Directorate. Aurora also holds a place on the frame contract for scientific and engineering services to the ESTEC Science Directorate and under this contract it also provides staff to ESAC in Spain. Currently Aurora has 25 staff split between ESTEC and ESAC and operates from Lisse, Netherlands.

This acquisition strengthens LSE’s position in the Netherlands and extends its presence to Spain. The additional skills coming from Aurora will also benefit our activities in Germany and the Middle East. Together we are a team of 150 highly skilled engineers and scientists focused on the space services market and we are ready to meet the challenges.

You can find more about Aurora on www.aurora.nl.