Sebastian Scholz

Yes, thank you very much for having me, Matthias.

I'm very excited to be here.

My name is Sebastian Scholz, and I'm an electronics and embedded system engineer at GammaSpace.

We are based in Paris, and I've been with GammaSpace since January 2023.

Our mission, our GammaSpaces mission is to develop and provide a propulsion technology called solar sails in space.

And to do that, we are using rust in various places.

And that's what I'm here to talk about.

Yes.

So the concept is actually rather simple.

You know, when you have a sail on a boat, you have the wind blowing into it.

In space, you don't have that, but you have the sun.

And the photons of the sun provide some amount of pressure on a sail.

So if you have reflective space, the reflections of the photon give you an impulse and so provide momentum.

to yourself so basically it's a way of moving in space but without fuel and just relying on the sun hmm

Basically, free propulsion.

Basically, free propulsion.

That's exactly it.

The main advantage of it, of combustion propulsion, is that you don't need to bring your fuel with you.

So as you might know, it's still kind of hard to get mass into space.

So by saving all of this potential fuel mass, it's going to be easier and cheaper to go into space.