-My name is Hervé Gaudefroy. We are currently on the Aussaguel site, a space telecom station. It is an Airbus Defence & Space site of a department called Astrium Service Business Communications. I am head of the product development activity. My team and I design, develop products and services used by our customers, that is to say satellite mobile telecoms typically onboard boats but also in zones where landline or cell phones do not pass, or have not yet been deployed. Where satellite mobile telecommunications are the one and only mean to reach a friendly professional network by phone or to implement Internet, do data transmissions, data-type telecommunications. "Why choose the space field?" The exciting side of my profession is that there is no weariness at all. Our activity is always linked to current events, to the customer needs at some point. We never really reuse components on shelves. We are constantly in a very specific development phase according to our market. There is absolutely no weariness. We do not get bored at work. We are in an exciting field thanks to the market we are aiming at, the maritime market and the terrestrial market for very specific segments, journalists, media, oil and gas, NGOs. They have very precise needs. This market knows what it wants, it is up to us to implement it. "What was your career path?" To get there, I got a scientific baccalauréat C, before attending preparatory classes to enter an engineering school, the Institut Régional des Communications Optiques et Micro-Ondes in Limoges, the IRCOM Limoges. After graduating as an engineer, I thought about doing a PhD, performing some research. I started with an electromagnetism DEA at the Clermont-Ferrand University. Then, soon after, I entered research laboratories, the Centre National d'Etudes des Télécoms in Paris, followed by a career in a more industrial field within structures such as France Télécom at the beginning of my career then Airbus up until now.