Main Responsibilities

• Head of the Flight Hardware and Software group
• with the emphasis on electronics and software for satelite missions and complete equipment for experiments on the International Space Station ISS

Career

From 1989 to 1992 at the Institute of Space Science in Graz he developed electronics and software for the project LOGION within the AUSTROMIR mission to the space station MIR. He also renewed qualification equipment for space projects, such as vacuum, thermal and cryogenic devices.

Since 1993 he holds the position of an R&D engineer at Joanneum Research, Graz. He is working in the field of system design, development and test of qualified hardware and software for space applications.
From 1993 to 1996 he developed and tested the flight hardware for the ACP experiment of the ESA Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn.  From 1997 to 2000 he was responsible for the MIDAS EGSE hardware for the ESA Rosetta mission.
From 1999 to 2000 Mr. Kropiunig developed a real-time OBDH satellite data bus simulation and manipulation system (i-BOB) for the ROSETTA mission based on VHDL and implemented in a FPGA.
Since 2001 Mr. Kropiunig is project manager for space applications.
He worked on specifications for the ESA GOCE and MICROSCOPE  field emission electric propulsion (FEEP) hardware concepts.
Since 2004 he mainly works for the ESA MILLER-UREY experiment that will be executed for about 500 hours on board of the international space station ISS. Mr. Kropiunig is responsible for the technical project management, system concept and design (electronics and mechanics) as well as qualification of the experiment, always accommodating the complex science requirements with the design rules and standards for ESA manned spaceflight missions.