“The “Do Not Open - Property of ArianeGroup” written on SC-X01 is just in case it washes up on shore. We wanted to keep this project small, for a rapid, quick turnaround,” says Jérôme, “for this project the learning process to get SpaceCase built quickly was as important as the data we will get, we are a lot like YPSat in this regard.”

“It is very motivating for teams to work on these types of projects,” concludes Jérôme, “by building SpaceCase SC-X01we have already given scientists ideas, just recently after a conference somebody came to me and said they would like to use SpaceCase to install a mass spectrometer inside our capsule to do some science when performing an atmospheric entry on Jupiter.”