Tomasz Kuciński
Co-owner, Project Manager, and Senior Engineer, Astronika
Engineer and Project Manager at Astronika. For more than two decades, he has been actively involved in the Polish space sector through his engagement first with the Students’ Space Association, then with non-governmental organizations (Mars Society Polska and The European Space Foundation), and later as an employee of the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he contributed, among others, to the Phobos-Grunt mission and R&D projects in robotics and mechatronics.
Since 2014, he has been a co-founder of Astronika, participating in the development of, among other projects, the Martian “mole” mechanism for NASA’s InSight mission, devices for the JUICE satellite heading toward the Jovian system, as well as technologies for the ATHENA mission - the European X-ray observatory.