Gama Space with Sebastian Scholz

About this episode

This episode features an interview with Sebastian Scholz from Gama Space discussing the use of Rust in aerospace software development.

Space exploration demands software that is reliable, efficient, and able to operate in the harshest environments imaginable. When a spacecraft deploys a solar sail millions of kilometers from Earth, there's no room for memory bugs, race conditions, or software failures. This is where Rust's robustness guarantees become mission-critical.  In this episode, we speak with Sebastian Scholz, an engineer at Gama Space, a French company pioneering solar sail and drag sail technology for spacecraft propulsion and deorbiting. We explore how Rust is being used in aerospace applications, the unique challenges of developing software for space systems, and what it takes to build reliable embedded systems that operate beyond Earth's atmosphere.

People in this episode

Host: Matthias Endler

Guest: Sebastian Scholz

Topics covered

• space exploration
• software reliability
• Rust programming
• aerospace applications
• embedded systems

Keywords

• Rust
• spacecraft
• solar sail
• software failures
• embedded systems
• aerospace
• reliability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gama Space

Places: France

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