Awards & distinctions

  • Gold medal for ILR-33 AMBER 2K suborbital rocket (Eureka International Paris 2024)
  • Amber of Polish Economy 2024 – Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation was awarded the prize for its consistent and successful efforts to develop green space propulsion by building and successfully testing the world’s first suborbital rocket, ILR-33 AMBER 2K, using one of the most environmentally friendly propellants, 98%+ hydrogen peroxide (10th National Economic Summit, November 4-5, 2024)
  • Special award of the Minister of National Defence – “ILR-33 AMBER 2K suborbital rocket” (MSPO 2024)
  • Award of the President of the Polish Space Agency – “ILR-33 AMBER 2K suborbital rocket” (MSPO 2024)
  • Gold medal, special award certificate – “Impact Energy Absorbing Technology” (Piotr Kowalczyk, Artur Słodziński, Adrian Lipkowski, iCAN 2024)
  • Gold medal – “AirBoxee – an innovative, fully automated last mile delivery system to collective parcel pickup points, with reduced unit delivery costs” (Adam Liberacki, Innoverse USA)
  • 30th International Defence Industry Exhibition – Defender statuette for “Maneuvering Jet Aircraft with the Jet-2 LM Tactical Warhead” (Łukasiewicz – Institute of Aviation as a member of a consortium)
  • International Fair of Inventions and Innovation INTARG 2022 – gold medal for an invention in the field of composite technologies for electric vehicles and a diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science for innovation in the field of remote sensing (“System and method of detecting and recognizing plant pathogens in greenhouse cultivation conditions”)
  • Institute’s professors ranked among the most cited scientists in the world
  • 120th Concours Lépine International Paris 2021 – silver medal
  • WUT 2021 Scientific Award for the monograph “Fatigue Analysis Tools of Aerostructures”
  • 13th International Invention and Innovation Show Intarg 2020
  • Innovation Leader 2020 – category: Personality – Mariusz Kacprzak, MSc., Head of Remote Sensing Department
  • Gold medal for invention: Mobile Soil Mapping System for Cultivated Plants
  • Forbes „30 under 30” Europe (2020) – distinction for Adam Okniński, PhD, for participating, together with the team, in the development of a major spacecraft propulsion center in Europe
  • Competition of the Ministry of National Defense “Space and Autonomy” – 2nd prize for Damian Kaniewski, MSc., for his master’s thesis entitled “Simulation of the propagation of the combustion front in a rocket engine to solid propellant using the method of contour lines” written under the supervision of Jan Kindracki, PhD, DSc., (competition category: Space, satellite and engineering technology with potential for application in the field of national defense or security)