David Herčík

Ralf Boden received his Dipl.-Ing. from the Technical University Munich, where he has been studying mission architectures and spacecraft design for small body exploration. During his Diploma thesis, Ralf has been working on the development and testing of GNC sensors and other thermal hardware as thermal engineer on DLR's MASCOT asteroid lander team. He joined JAXA's Solar Power Sail study group in 2014, where he worked on the design and development of a robotic lander for the exploration of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. He received his Dr.Eng. from the University of Tokyo in 2017, on the topic of cold gas propulsion systems for small spacecraft. He is currently working as a lunar lander systems and integration engineer at ispace-inc in Tokyo.