About

From a demanding problem to working technology.

Modern aerospace needs solutions that can move faster from concept to validated product — without losing quality, flexibility or control over the process. NexThrust Industries is building the competencies, technologies and engineering-production backbone to make that possible within one integrated environment.

Leadership

NexThrust Industries founders

Michał Pietras
Founder & CEO

Michał Pietras

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He comes from the Silesian University of Technology, where he studied Aerospace Engineering with a focus on aircraft propulsion. He also studied at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona.

He gained industrial experience through internships at Avio Aero (GE Aerospace), including work around the Catalyst engine programme, at Apollo Spirit (LLC ProgressTech), and through study visits including the Sener space technology centre in Catalonia.

He was selected for ESA Summer School Alpbach 2026, where his international team received 1st place in the Spacecraft Design category. He also participated in a research project related to ESA ESTEC concerning heat-resistant coatings for satellite RCS engines.

He actively participates in events connecting business, science and engineering, including Paris Air Show and the European Economic Congress, while building relationships around the future of the European aerospace sector.

Bruno Gładysz
Founder & CTO

Bruno Gładysz

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He studies Aerospace Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology and has also studied at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Catalonia. He focuses on propulsion, CFD and advanced flow analyses.

At NexThrust he is responsible for the technology area and the company’s R&D direction, developing advanced propulsion projects and building capabilities needed to move from analytical studies to physical demonstrators.

He has spent months reviewing archival NASA documents to reconstruct and understand historical approaches to aerospike propulsion. His thesis work focuses on advanced CFD simulations of modern aerospike rocket nozzles.

Vision

Planned engineering and production center in KSSE.

The planned NexThrust Industries center will be located in the Katowice Special Economic Zone and designed from the ground up as an integrated combination of an R&D center and an advanced production facility. We want to combine design offices, laboratories, prototyping, metrology, test stands and space for hardware manufacturing and integration in one place.

The facility will be equipped with an ultramodern machine park including process furnaces, metal 3D printers, precision machining, measurement systems and infrastructure required to validate advanced components and systems.

At the center we want to focus primarily on propulsion-related technologies for the space industry — including satellite systems, flow components, aerospike concepts and material solutions — while also developing other advanced aerospace technologies and interdisciplinary engineering projects.

The goal is to create one of the key aerospace technology centers in Europe — a place that connects concept development, simulation, prototyping, testing and preparation for production.

Concept of the planned NexThrust Industries technology centerConcept of the planned NexThrust Industries engineering and production center.