Miguel Nunes
Director at Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolMiguel Nunes is a director and systems engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience developing small-satellite missions and flight software from Hawaiʻi, leading the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory and supporting research at HIGP. He specializes in ADCS/AOCS, GNC, model-based systems engineering, and autonomous multi-agent space systems, and has taken projects from student-built satellites to NASA-selected lunar instruments. Miguel has a track record of real missions (HiakaSat, NEUTRON-1, HyTI) and long-horizon programs including Artemis-class payloads and climate-monitoring CubeSats slated for late-decade launches. He also leads open-source mission operations tooling (COSMOS) used for spacecraft simulation and system-in-the-loop testing, blending software, hardware, and operations expertise. Based in Honolulu with a PhD in mechanical engineering, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering—often developing flight-ready on-board computers and 6DoF simulators that reveal subtle interactions between control algorithms and real-world avionics.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Aerospace Engineering at Instituto Superior TécnicoPh.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
robotics10
cosmos10
satellite10
rover9
qt7
mongodb6
neutrino6
mavlink6
react5
android5
linux5
windows5
web-application5
ios5
station5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spacemig/space-computers
Mar 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
spacemig/dune
Dec 2016 - Mar 2019
DUNE: Unified Navigation Environment
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 3 months
dunenavigation
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