Space: these two Bordeaux residents have their heads in the stars

They both remember this evening in 2017, in a bar in Bordeaux. A mutual friend, convinced that they would be able to gain height together, had organized the meeting. He was not mistaken: after a few hours, Alexandre Mangeot and Sylvain Bataillard, seven years his junior, were already sketching the beginnings of what would become the entrepreneurial adventure HyPrSpace, a space company that they founded in 2019 and which is preparing to launch its first rocket.