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Harald Luiks πŸ›°οΈ

Director of Spacecraft Integration & Testing

Saudi Space Agency Β· Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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About Me

I lead spacecraft integration and testing programmes at the Saudi Space Agency, where my team handles end-to-end satellite AIT/AIV, verification, and mission readiness across government space programmes.

My career spans the full mission lifecycle β€” from early concurrent design sessions and systems engineering, through cleanroom integration, environmental verification testing, launch, and operations β€” across four countries and over six years.

 πŸ›°   13 satellites in orbit
πŸš€   6 space propulsion projects managed
πŸ€–   MMX rover mission β€” thermal testing for the first landing on Phobos
🌍   Worked in πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan Β· πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Germany Β· πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Netherlands Β· πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ Saudi Arabia
πŸ—£    Panel Moderator, International Space Debris Conference 2024 (ITU / UNOOSA)

Experience

Period Role Organisation
2025 – present Director, Spacecraft Integration & Testing Saudi Space Agency
2023 – 2025 Team Lead, Satellite Engineering Saudi Space Agency
2023 Project Manager, Propulsion Systems Dawn Aerospace
2021 – 2023 Systems AIT/AIV Engineer ISISPACE Group
2019 – 2020 Graduate Researcher, Environmental Testing DLR (German Aerospace Center)
2019 Planetary Rover Researcher Space Robotics Lab, Tohoku University

Public Repositories

A curated library of resources for space mission design β€” tools, visualisations, reference materials, and scripts. Built to make space systems knowledge more accessible and less scattered.

πŸ›°οΈ nasa-smallsat-soa

NASA's State-of-the-Art of Small Spacecraft Technology report (2026 edition) extracted into structured JSON β€” 113 tables spanning propulsion, power, communications, GNC, thermal, and more. Includes a Python scraper and automated annual update via GitHub Actions.

Python interface for the Graphtec GL840 data logger via PyVISA. Minimum working example for EGSE data acquisition β€” useful for AIT test setups.

Python driver for Rohde & Schwarz HMC8041/8042/8043 power supplies, all in one class via PyVISA. Built for EGSE applications in satellite testing environments.

ROS package for 433MHz radio communication on Raspberry Pi. Originally developed for the Clover planetary rover platform at Tohoku University's Space Robotics Lab.


Skills & Tools

Space Engineering

Systems Engineering Spacecraft AIT/AIV EGSE/MGSE Environmental Testing Mission Operations LEOP Concurrent Design MBSE CubeSat

Software & Tools

Python AWS Git


Education

MSc Aerospace Engineering β€” Delft University of Technology (2017–2020) Thesis research conducted at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen on the MMX rover mission.

BSc Aviation Studies β€” Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (2012–2016)

Engineering Summer Programme (TESP) β€” Tohoku University, Japan (2019)


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