Ascendance deepens Capgemini partnership ahead of first flight this year

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French hybrid electric propulsion and aircraft developer Ascendance has expanded its partnership with Capgemini ahead of a first flight scheduled for later this year.

Since 2021, Capgemini has been accompanying Ascendance through its product development roadmap towards certification, helping with things such as system engineering, flight physics and control and power systems and battery development.

Jean-Christophe Lambert, CEO and co-founder of Ascendance said: “We are thrilled to extend our partnership with Capgemini, together we have forged a strong relationship in recent years with many milestones achieved. Their expertise in engineering, data, and industrialisation is crucial to accelerating the commercialisation of our hybrid propulsion solution Sterna, and industrialisation of our aircraft Atea.”

To accelerate the scale-up and industrialisation phase of both Sterna and Atea, the extended partnership will see Capgemini bring its capabilities in engineering, technology, data and business transformation in the fields of electric battery, industrial ramp-up, connected services and digital continuity.

William Rozé, CEO of Capgemini Engineering and group executive board member added: “We are extremely pleased to expand our relationship with Ascendance. After a successful first phase to support their innovative product development roadmap, we are now pivoting from technology demonstrations to industrialisation. 

“Together, with Ascendance’s hybrid modular propulsion system and Capgemini’s end-to-end capabilities in critical engineering disciplines, digital and business transformation, we are ready to accelerate and soon deploy decarbonised solutions at scale for the aviation industry.”

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