Vytenis J. Buzas

Vytenis Buzas is the co-founder of NanoAvionics – a small satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator based in Columbia, IL (US), Oxfordshire (UK) and Vilnius (Lithuania). Prior to founding NanoAvionics, Vytenis initiated and lead the first national satellite mission in Lithuania — LituanicaSAT-1 — and worked with smallsat and subsystem R&D projects under various research institutions, including Vilnius University in Lithuania. He was also a scientific researcher at NASA Ames research center where he was involved in projects related to liquid mono-propulsion systems for small spacecrafts as well as station keeping and de-orbit systems for the eventual recovery of payloads. Vytenis acquired a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and a MSc. degree at the Kaunas University of Technology in Mechatronics.