Over the past 18 months, Thales Alenia Space welcomed some 40 Brazilian engineers to its facilities. After an initial intensive training, these selected engineers then joined the SGDC program run by Thales Alenia Space. In 2013, the company had won a contract to build the SGDC dual (civil/military) telecommunications satellite, for Visiona. At the same time, the French-Italian company had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) concerning technology transfer, a major first step in the ambitious partnership plan signed by Thales Alenia Space, the Brazilian Space Agency and the domestic space industry. The Brazilian engineers, along with an SGDC project manager from Visiona, therefore joined Thales Alenia Space teams throughout the length of the program. After several months of training, then working alongside Thales Alenia Space staff, the Brazilian engineers shared their impressions of this experience, which all found to be an exceptionally fruitful time for sharing and learning.