François Toussaint

François Toussaint is a cofounder and chief executive of objectory, and is based in Auckland. Since March 2026 he has also headed spacecraft operations at Rocket Lab, which he joined in January 2023 as a senior spacecraft and flight dynamics operations engineer before becoming spacecraft operations lead engineer in May 2024 and then team lead and principal spacecraft operations engineer in April 2025.

He spent most of the previous decade at the Centre National d'Études Spatiales, where he worked as a mission operations ground segment engineer from February 2015 and as a specialist spacecraft and flight dynamics operations engineer from June 2018 until January 2023. Earlier he developed space flight dynamics software at Thales Belgium from October 2013, and held internships at the Centre National d'Études Spatiales in space simulation and at ArianeGroup in space system engineering.

Toussaint studied aerospace engineering at ISAE-ENSMA from 2010 to 2013, following preparatory classes in mathematics at Lycée H. Poincaré. He gives his areas of expertise as satellite systems engineering, space systems, aerospace engineering and software development.