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Albert Bouchal

Co-founder @czechrockets · space geek · usually somewhere with a different timezone.

A live counter showing how far Earth has carried you through its orbit since this page loaded — about 29.8 kilometres every second. Below it, a flight-path arc bounces a dot between Prague and Amsterdam (about 890 km apart) to give the distance a human-scale reference; the dot completes one crossing roughly every 30 seconds.

Earth's orbital speed around the Sun: ~29.8 km/s

An Earth-rotation clock: how far the planet has turned since the most recent sunrise in Prague, shown as an arc of a full 360-degree turn, with an estimate of how far that has carried you east. You can travel through time with the keyboard — D moves forward, A moves back, and S returns to now.

About

I like to understand through context — following where technology, industries, and ideas are heading, and connecting the dots between them.

I like tech, arts, and order. I'm drawn to environments with a strong sense of vision. As a dreamer and (techno-)optimist, I enjoy my beliefs being stress-tested by reality. Trying not to live too fast — observing carefully, valuing every orbit around the Sun. Open to the right mission.

I'm currently deep in science fiction — Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem trilogy quietly rearranged how I think about scale, time, science, and how fragile a civilisation can be.

Selected work

Things I've built and helped run.

Featured

Czech Rocket Society

Co-founder and other roles

A first-of-its-kind community of students, engineers - the stubbornly curious -, designing and flying rockets from the Czech Republic. Since 2021. Also organizing Czech Rocket Challenge.

czechrockets.com ↗  czechrocketchallenge.cz ↗

Prague Innovation Institute

Space Activities Developer

Czech and EU space ecosystem knowledge, hackathons organizations (CASSINI, EUDIS), programmes and grant recommendations.

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Placeholder secret project

One of the three

Pushing timelines

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Favorites

What I'm into right now.

A rotating few — I swap a card whenever something new earns the slot.

  • Launcher

    Jun 2026

    Falcon 9

    Reliability and reusability you almost take for granted now — reusing boosters and fairing halves many many times. Following since 2018. Hail the record booster B1067 with 35 launches.

  • Mission

    Jul 2026

    Polaris Dawn

    The moment Jared (the current NASA Administrator!) climbed outside up the Dragon's forward docking port? I will always see the picture in my head. Proudly owning the original rubber mission patch!

  • Reading

    Jul 2026

    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

    Robert Anson Heinlein explaining his views on future Moon habitats, society and Earth's stance. For many more authors, this work of art must have been an inspiration.

In the kit

Travel

31 countries on the map

31 countries visited · more incoming
Visited Not yet Hover a highlighted country — write-ups are coming.

On the map

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Contact

Find me online, or reach out directly.