Latitude

🚨 Latitude opens a new chapter: Zephyr gets closer to maiden flight as we successfully closed a Series B private #FundingRound of 27 million € ✅🤝   We are grateful to our historical investors Crédit Mutuel Innovation, Expansion, UI Investissement and the DeepTech 2030 fund operated by Bpifrance for Gouvernement, for their continued support and trust in our vision👐✨ We're glad to welcome Blast Club as a new investor in our company on this round as well as Kima Ventures and Vincent Luciani (Artefact CEO) as an individual investor. The commitment of all of them reinforces Latitude's ability to become a leader in the #DeepTech space 🦾   This financing makes it possible to lay the operational & industrial foundations for the first launch, expected in 2025, while supporting the evolution of #Zephyr, that will offer a 200kg #payload capacity by 2028 🚀 We will specifically focus on these key projects:   👉 Production of the first #Launcher 👉 Setting up the #Assembly line 👉 Tests on #Electronics #Propulsion #FluidSystems, and #Structures 👉 Operations of our Titan Research & Tests Center in Paris-Vatry Airport (EPGAV) 👉 Keep recruiting top-notch #Talent   Thank you to our investors, partners, and the entire Latitude community for joining us on this incredible journey! Together, we're getting closer to unleashing the potential of many #SmallSats based projects 🚀🛰️🔜   #BeyondBoundaries #SmallSats #LaunchLatitude

[Logbook Entry 22/08/2024] Location: Reims & Vatry I Section: enhancing our flexibility with #ModularSpaces solution partner Module3 🏢🛠️🧩   Latitude is collaborating with #Module 3, a company based in Eastern France specializing in modular office solutions and buildings the size of standard #ShippingContainers 🚢🚛 Our history together started with them providing containers for our test Navier #RocketEngine test campaign, which served as workshops #TestBench and storage. They have recently supplied installations for our Titan test site in XCR Airport and continue to provide containers for storage and parts warehouses ✅   This partnership enhances our mobility, allowing us to transport equipment independently of the #Spaceport. We plan to use these mobile containers for #GroundInstallations, commercial reception, and mobile workshops for production teams on various sites, offering unmatched #flexibility ⏩   And finally, Module 3's design office brings significant value by tailoring plans and proposals to meet Latitude's needs 🔁 optimizing visitor paths on-site and adapting to industrial requirements with features like lighting and comfort for the Latitude teams. 

Throwback to Institut des hautes études de défense nationale IHEDN students visting our facilities and attending a conference cycle 🎙️ A few weeks ago, a group of students from the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defense visited our Titan Research & Development Center at XCR Airport. They took an in-depth tour of our tests facilities, followed by a visit to our factory in Reims, where they participated in a series of insightful conferences on the use-cases of space-based applications 👩🎓👨🎓 We are delighted to build a strong relationship with such an institution as this collaboration marks a significant step in fostering #Innovation and strategic partnerships in the field of national defense in #Space and on Earth 🇫🇷 We look forward to future engagements and the continued exchange of knowledge and expertise! #BeyondBoundaries #ExploreWithLatitude #MissionToLead

Our technical partnership with #Clemessy Eiffage Énergie Systèmes is deepening as they provide our test benches controls systems ✅ 👨💻   Our partnership with Clemessy, a renowned French company with extensive expertise in #ControlSystems for legacy #Launchers, has been pivotal since 2022. Back then, they played a key role in the successful design of the control system for our 1st Navier #RocketEngine test campaign 👨💻🔥 Their continued support ever since has been vital for the ongoing in-house #Turbompump test campaign and the upcoming flight Navier #RocketEngine test campaign slated for later this year. We now have chosen to extend our partnership with them all the way to the integrated tests of our launcher leading to its maiden launch 🚀   We initially integrated a module from their SCADA/Syclone software suite, which seamlessly combines hardware and software ⚙️🔗💻 The success of this integration led us to build our entire line of control systems based on Clemessy's solutions, significantly supporting our growth and upskilling in this field.   Clemessy's value is evident in their approach to delivering COTS products and software, optimized in collaboration with our teams at Latitude for integration into our architecture. These solutions have been validated by CNES at Centre Spatial Guyanais, among others, demonstrating their reliability and ease of use for our development and operational test teams ✅   Their proven solutions are designed to facilitate both development and operational testing for Latitude, ensuring we can continue advancing our Zephyr light launcher dedicated to orbiting #SmallSats 🛰️   #LatitudeLaunches #SpaceTechPioneers

[Logbook Entry 30/07/2024] Location: Utah, USA I Abstract: Latitude team attending the 38th Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) 🇫🇷🇺🇸 Latitude is gearing up for the 38th #SmallSatConference at Utah State University this August! Our team Stanislas Maximin CEO Adeline Pitrois Head of Sales Clémence Cambourian Customer Mission Lead Pierre Nowacki Business Development Manager and Florian Randriamahaleo Head of Brand & Comms, will be on site to discuss the first commercial #Flights of Zephyr and related opportunities 🚀🛰️🌐☑️ For the lucky #SmallSats innovators attending, this is your chance to discover how Zephyr can unlock the full potential of your projects 🛰️ We'll answer all your questions and explore how we can help elevate and accelerate your #Missions to orbit 🆙 👉 See you in Utah!

Throwback to testing sheet metal working techniques building the first real-size #Tanks of #Zephyr 🚀 Our teams are developing Zephyr while always keeping #Production requirements in mind to make sure it can be mass produced 🏭🚀🚀🚀 Among many other projects, we have partnered with French industrial companies specializing in aluminium sheet metal work to test different fabrication methods.   Our partners conducted several techniques to transform flat aluminum sheets into cylindrical shapes, soon to be welded as the first real-size LOX and RP1 tanks of #Zephyr. These sheets have been meticulously pre-machined with an #Orthogrid pattern ensuring they are lightweight yet meeting robustness requirements. The first partner conducted trials on a technique known as "press bending" while a second technique called "rolling" was tested in partnership with another industrial company.   The objective for our Structure and Mechanical Systems team is to define which one best meets our stringent requirements for tolerance and repeatability 🦾✅ These efforts are crucial steps toward allowing Latitude to provide high cadence #LaunchSolutions for #SmallSats 🛰️🌐✅   #BeyondBoundaries #PushingTheLimits #SmallSatSolution

🚀 Today reflects a significant landmark in our journey! We are pleased to announce that Bastien Baticle, our Head of Electronics & Software Systems and Deputy CTO, has been promoted to Chief Technical Officer, succeeding Olivier Lebrethon. This transition marks the conclusion of Zephyr's development phase and the official beginning of manufacturing, testing and operation for the 200kg-class French launcher. More information: https://lnkd.in/gvm4fNDW

[Logbook Entry 23/07/2024] Location: Low Earth Orbit I 1st Episode: The amazing potential of #SmallSats for the Earth and its inhabitants 🌍🛰️👨👩👧👦   Are you curious about the purpose of the SmallSats our #Launcher Zephyr will be bringing to orbit as of next year? This 1st installment in our #SmallSatsForEarth series will start addressing that! Discover how SmallSats are revolutionizing environmental applications, from monitoring #ClimateChange to tracking #NaturalDisasters 🌪️🌡️🌻🌊   👉 Swipe through to see how Weather Stream 🛰️, Space Center of the University of Montpellier (CSUM), Fondation Van Allen - FVA, SatVu, ASTAREON, Aldoria (formerly Share My Space) and U-Space Nanosatellites are making incredible strides with their satellite technologies.   Thank you to all our contributors for sharing their insights and innovations and stay tuned for more content in this series, addressing other types of #Applications allowed by SmallSats and highlighting their endless potential.   ❓ What innovative ways do you think SmallSats could be used that we haven't yet explored?   #SmallSatSolution #FutureInOrbit #ExploreDreamDiscover

969 applications. 68 winners. 13 from France. For the first time since Latitude's beginning, the #EuropeanUnion has funded our company’s present and future. This significant funding comes from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and its #EICAccelerator, the EU's flagship program for high-risk/high-impact technological projects and one of the continent's most selective programs. We're proud that they recognized our plug & play fully mobile launchpad solution: Smart GPM (Smart Ground Proximity Means) as one of these innovative projects. More than the support, we are humbled by the #EuropeanUnion confidence. It honors the everyday, behind-the-scenes work of our individuals. The work which is far from the ignition of a rocket engine or other easily apparent milestones. It's the job of the one ensuring that each team has the right experts. Whether they're from France, Belgium, Ireland. It's the job of the one simplifying our turbopump, the one lightening our tanks or the one calculating Zephyr's flight trajectories. It's through them that Latitude exists, performs and grows. For them, thank you! Congrats also to the 67 other winners, our 12 other compatriots and especially Apmonia Therapeutics !#LégendR European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) PCN Conseil européen de l'innovation (EIC) Simon Brenet Benkei Gorka Gorazureta --- 969 candidatures. 68 lauréats. 13 français. Pour la première fois depuis la fondation de Latitude, l'#UnionEuropéenne vient supporter financièrement notre développement. Ce support, il provient de l'European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) via l'#EICAccelerator, le principal fonds de financement de l'UE dans les projets technologiques « high-risk/high-impact » et un des programmes les plus sélectifs du continent. Nous sommes fiers de voir notre pas-de-tir à déploiement rapide, SmartGPM (Smart Ground Proximity Means), être reconnu comme un de ces projets innovants. Mais plus que ce financement, c’est la confiance portée par l'#UnionEuropéenne qui nous honore. Elle récompense le travail quotidien, de l’ombre, de nos équipes. Loin de l’allumage d’un moteur ou autres jalons-phares facilement visibles. C‘est le travail de celle assurant à chaque équipe, les bons experts. Qu’ils soient français, belges ou irlandais. C’est le travail de celui simplifiant notre turbopompe, celle allégeant nos réservoirs de vols ou celui recalculant les trajectoires de vol de Zephyr. C’est par eux que Latitude existe, exécute et grandit.   Pour eux, merci et félicitations aux 67 autres lauréats, en particulier nos 12 autres compatriotes dont un autre rémois Apmonia Therapeutics !#LégendR

Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants. Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent - Saint Exupéry   On a pris un peu de temps pour cette publication. On souhaitait trouver les mots. Et surtout, les bons.   Ces quelques mots, rédigés en français, ne les limitez pas à ceux d'un acteur du lancement français et européen. Ils sont avant tout ceux de passionné(e)s, bercé(e)s par le spatial depuis l'enfance.   ArianeGroup, European Space Agency - ESA, CNES, ARIANESPACE. Hier, dès le "A tous de DDO", vous nous avez donné des frissons. Les mêmes qui ont créé chez nombre de nos ingénieurs leurs vocations à l'époque d'#Ariane5 voire d'#Ariane4. Certains parmi eux ont d'ailleurs eu l'honneur de voir le fruit de leurs efforts décoller, atteindre Max-Q, puis l'espace. Nous vous transmettons, tout en nous joignant à eux, leurs félicitations et leurs applaudissements.   Bravo donc pour ce succès, crucial bien sûr pour le futur de l'Europe spatiale mais plus simplement pour continuer à faire du spatial ce secteur si unique. Ce secteur qui, que nous soyons à Kourou, à Vernon, à Brême, à Paris ou à Reims, fait ressentir de l'inexplicable. Il faut le vivre pour le comprendre, mais il est universel. Vous le savez, il nous fait lever de nos fauteuils, regarder encore et encore les télémétries même sans toutes les comprendre, attendre avec impatience le "pilotage calme, trajectoire nominale" bien qu'il soit répété toutes les 10 secondes, laisser échapper un "wow" quand une nouvelle vue apparaît à l'écran. C'est ça, le spatial. Une formidable aventure humaine entourée d'émotions.   Nous ne pouvons pas terminer ces mots sans avoir aussi une pensée pour nos partenaires, confrères et consoeurs qui ont vécu ce lancement comme spectateurs et comme acteurs : Space Center of the University of Montpellier (CSUM), RIDE! space, The Exploration Company et bien d'autres, bienvenue dans votre espace.   Avec vous, Latitude 📸 European Space Agency - ESA, Manuel Pédoussaut #Ariane6 #VA262