Atdhe Kycyku

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About me

I am at The Exploration Company, where I am part of the Vehicle Design Team responsible for the delivery of the Mission Possible and Nyx spacecraft.

Previously, I was at the European Space Agency (ESA) where I worked in the Thermal Control Section at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), in the Netherlands. I also worked in the Mechanical Systems Laboratory at ESTEC.

At ESA I was involved in projects across the full program lifecycle, from a pre-phase A concept study of a Martian ISRU drilling platform to a high operating temperature anomaly investigation for the ongoing BepiColombo mission to Mercury. I was also Lead Thermal Engineer for YPSat, a small satellite mission that launched on the maiden flight of the Ariane 6 in July 2024.

Before that, I was in the Applied Technologies Division at Reaction Engines, where I created system design tools incorporating offshoot developments from the hypersonic SKYLON spaceplane.

In 2020 I finished my Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. My thesis work, completed in the Electrochemical Science and Engineering Group, was on the thermal control of CubeSats using phase change materials.

My main interests include spacecraft thermal control, space systems engineering, and human spaceflight.

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