Sebastian Scholz

But the mindset that we have at Gamma is the mindset of the new space companies.

So we try to move fast and fail fast.

So we try a bunch of new things.

And if we do fail...

It's unfortunate, of course, but it's not a big deal.

That's kind of how we do learn.

And so what we wanted to do with this mission, it's a demonstration mission.

So we wanted to demonstrate our technology, but we also wanted to try out new things.

And so using Rust as the main driver for our onboard data handling system was one of these decisions that we wanted to try out to see if it's going to be usable for the future as well.

Yeah, so the main one that is probably known to everyone is SpaceX in that regard.

And you can definitely see in the way they work that they like to fail fast as well.

I mean, just look at the Starship launches.

The development of this kind of rocket is extremely difficult, but they're doing it very fast and they're failing very fast as well.

I mean, many of these launches end with spectacular explosions.

And so the mentality is, yeah, okay,

We're going to have to spend a lot of resources, but we're going to learn a lot of it as well during the failure.

So, yeah, that's just one way of moving forward versus in the past, the kind of old space, which is the big entities like NASA, they want to do it once and want to do it correctly.

And I mean, this mindset is also very important if you're doing like deep space missions as well.

where it takes a really long time to get to places for example i mean as well if you want to go to mars you you kind of get one shot and if you don't do it correctly you're gonna have to wait a couple 10 or more years to get back okay it's a test mission and yet it is foundational software that you're writing because you might as well just use some of the more established or like

So this mainly boils down to our software engineer at the time.