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HaralDev/README.md

Harald Luiks 🛰️

Director of Spacecraft Integration & Testing

Saudi Space Agency · 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 — from early concurrent design sessions and systems engineering, through cleanroom integration, environmental verification testing, launch, and operations — across four countries and over six years.

 🛰 13 satellites in orbit
🚀 6 space propulsion projects managed
🤖 MMX rover mission — thermal testing for the first landing on Phobos
🌍 Worked in 🇯🇵 Japan · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🗣 Panel Moderator, International Space Debris Conference 2024 (ITU / UNOOSA)

Experience

PeriodRoleOrganisation
2025 – presentDirector, Spacecraft Integration & TestingSaudi Space Agency
2023 – 2025Team Lead, Satellite EngineeringSaudi Space Agency
2023Project Manager, Propulsion SystemsDawn Aerospace
2021 – 2023Systems AIT/AIV EngineerISISPACE Group
2019 – 2020Graduate Researcher, Environmental TestingDLR (German Aerospace Center)
2019Planetary Rover ResearcherSpace Robotics Lab, Tohoku University

Public Repositories

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

NASA's State-of-the-Art of Small Spacecraft Technology report (2026 edition) extracted into structured JSON — 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 — 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 EngineeringSpacecraft AIT/AIVEGSE/MGSEEnvironmental TestingMission OperationsLEOPConcurrent DesignMBSECubeSat

Software & Tools

PythonAWSGit


Education

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

BSc Aviation Studies — Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (2012–2016)

Engineering Summer Programme (TESP) — Tohoku University, Japan (2019)


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  1. Space-Systems-Engineering-ResourcesSpace-Systems-Engineering-ResourcesPublic

    A list of useful resources for space mission design, visualisations, scripts and more

    17 1

  2. GraphtecPythonGraphtecPythonPublic

    Python script for reading values from Graphtec (GL840) device with PyVisa. Serves as minimum working example.

    Python 2 2

  3. 433MHz_ROS_RasPi433MHz_ROS_RasPiPublic

    A ROS package for a common 433MHz radio module that can be used on the Raspberry Pi.

    C++ 2

  4. HMC804x-PythonHMC804x-PythonPublic

    Python interface for Rohde & Schwarz HMC8041, HMC8042, HMC8043 all in one class, using PyVisa.

    Python 1

  5. TUDelft_thesis_plottingTUDelft_thesis_plottingPublic

    Generates plots adhering to the TU Delft template (Utopia font) with Python Matplotlib.

    Python 1

  6. haraldev.github.ioharaldev.github.ioPublic

    Personal website

    HTML