About
A small team
building flight-grade hardware.
ANVIL Space is a division of ANVIL Corp. We design, fabricate and fly reusable aerospace demonstrators in the smallest possible envelope. Every PCB, every line of flight code, every component selection is ours.
01 · Operating principles
P · 01
Experiment in the open.
We expose what we are testing, what failed, and what changed between revisions. Hardware iterates faster when nothing is hidden.
P · 02
Reusable avionics.
RESILIENCE, HARMONY and VITALITY are designed to fly on the H1 hopper today and on a TVC rocket tomorrow, on a single airframe-agnostic stack.
P · 03
Simulate before flight.
Every control law is validated in a 6-DOF MATLAB model before it ever drives a servo.
02 · Team
M · 01
Jean HerailEPITA · Toulouse
Cofounder / Flight Software
Active
M · 02
Maximilien BoudetSupAero · Toulouse
Cofounder / GNC
Active
M · 03
Daniel M'BOUYOU
Avionics
Active
M · 04
Titouan Caperaa
Mechanical
Active
03 · Program status · August 2026
2026 · Q1
RESILIENCE, HARMONY, VITALITY PCBs fabricated
Complete
2026 · Q1
EDF + ESC procured
Complete
2026 · Q2
Sensor bring-up and bench tests
Complete
2026 · Q2
EDF static fire
Complete
2026 · Q2–Q3
Flight software (C++, RP2040)
In progress
2026 · Q2–Q3
6-DOF simulation and control law
In progress
2026 · Q3
Mechanical structure (CAD + print)
Complete
2026 · Q3
First autonomous hop test
Target · 2026
We work with a constant sense of urgency.