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.
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Reusable avionics.
RESILIENCE, HARMONY and VITALITY are designed to fly on the H1 hopper today and on a TVC rocket tomorrow : one airframe-agnostic stack.
P · 03
Memory-safe firmware.
Flight software is written in Rust on the RP2040. We accept the toolchain cost in exchange for compile-time guarantees on embedded code.
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Simulate before flight.
Every control law is validated in a 6-DOF MATLAB model before it ever drives a servo. Static fires precede hop tests. Hop tests precede everything else.
02 — Team
M · 01
Jean HerailEPITA · Toulouse
Flight software — Rust firmware on RP2040, ground-control software, embedded toolchain.
Active
M · 02
Maximilien BoudetSupAero · Toulouse
Propulsion, actuators, GNC, simulations, vehicle dynamics... and the math.
Active
03 — Program status · May 2026
2026 · Q1
RESILIENCE, HARMONY, VITALITY PCBs fabricated
Complete
2026 · Q1
EDF + ESC procured
Complete
2026 · Q2
Sensor bring-up and bench tests
In progress
2026 · Q2
EDF static fire
In progress
2026 · Q2–Q3
Flight software (Rust, RP2040)
In Progress
2026 · Q2–Q3
6-DOF simulation and control law
Queued
2026 · Q3
Mechanical structure (CAD + print)
In Progress
2026 · Q3
First autonomous hop test
Target · before August 2026
We work with a constant sense of urgency.