Sebastian Scholz

But after finishing my studies, I joined Gamma then in January 2023.

And that's the point when I started to learn about Rust and when I kind of fell in love with it because of the security guarantees that it takes.

You mentioned earlier that all of the stuff that we have talked before must have been in place before.

And that's actually not the case.

This is one of the reasons I got onboarded because at the time it was literally just Chris responsible for the software.

And so we really needed more support in the electronics and in the software department, embedded software department.

And so that's where I came in.

Although I couldn't directly start working on the onboard data handling system.

Well, I did some small contributions here and there.

But when I started, I got assigned to a kind of a side project.

So you have to imagine the satellite has just launched a few days ago.

I come into the company.

I get used to everyone.

Everything meets everyone.

And then, ah, okay, we have kind of a validation of our satellite.

We want to do a zero-G flight.

So that is a flight where the plane...

It does a parable, so it goes up and then it flies in a way so that you cancel out gravity.

So for a few seconds, like 30 seconds, you are weightless.

And we wanted to use that and develop a system to have a small-scale solar sail deployed and to see how it behaves in COG.