THE FIRST ECUADORIAN ASTRONAUT
NAME: RONNIE NADER Foto oficial Ronnie Nader
POSITION: MISSION SPECIALIST ASTRONAUT - COMMANDER
GRADE: ASA/T (ADVANCED SUBORBITAL ASTRONAUT) - EXA
CMAE (AEROSPACE MISSION COMMANDER) - EXA/FAE
NATIONALITY: ECUADORIAN, JULY 10, 1967
SERIAL NUMBER: EAC-001-D060807
CALLSIGN: VADER
EXPERIENCE: 7 AEROSPACE RESEARCH MISSIONS (EXA/FAE-01 to EXA/FAE-07)
1 SEARCH & RECON MISSION (MBRC/FAE-01)
MISSION DIRECTOR NEE-01 PEGASUS
MISSION DIRECTOR NEE-02 KRYSAOR
DUTIES:
FUNCTION:		 SPACE OPERATIONS DIVISION DIRECTOR AT EXA
 MISSION COMMANDER - ASTRONAUT
ASSIGNED SPACE MISSIONS:  ESAA-01 SUBORBITAL - HYPERION-2
ESAA-01A SUBORBITAL - HYPERION-2
ESAA-01B SUBORBITAL - HYPERION-2

INSIGNIAS WORN:

 

ASA/T Wings

Mission Commander badge

Aerospace mission pin

MEDALS

"Dr. Vicente Rocafuerte to Scientific Research Merit"
 National Parliament

"University and Science"
UCSG - Universidad Catolica Santiago de Guayaquil

"Example for Youth"
INNFA - Social Inclusion Ministry

"Battle of Pichincha"
Pichincha Province High Council


LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENTS

First Ecuadorian Astronaut, 2007
Designer of the Ecuadorian Space Program, 2007
Designed and flown the 1st Latin American microgravity plane, 2008
Achieved the Microgravity world record, 2008
Built the first National UV Reactive Alert Network, 2008
Designed and built the first Internet-to-Orbit gateway. HERMES-A, 2009
Designed and built the 1st Ecuadorian satellite, NEE-01 PEGASUS. 2011
Designed and built the 2nd Ecuadorian satellite, NEE-02 KRYSAOR. 2012
Launched the 1st and 2nd Ecuadorian satellites, 2013
The first functional rescue operation on nano satellites, 2014
The only person in history to be the first astronaut of a country and the father of its first satellite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Space Operations Director for the Ecuadorian Space Agency. 2007 to date
Mission Commander for the DAEDALUS missions, 8 missions flown, 2008
Mission Commander for Project POSEIDON - Microgravity world record 2008
Chief Engineer of  the HYPERION - National UV Reactive Alert Network 2008
Chief Designer of Project HERMES - The first Internet-to-Orbit gateway. 2009
Chief engineer and team leader that built the 1st Ecuadorian satellite, the NEE-01 PEGASUS. 2011
Chief engineer and team leader that built the 2nd Ecuadorian satellite, the NEE-02 KRYSAOR. 2012
Mission Director for NEE-Alpha satellite constellation launch and operation. 2013 to date
Mission Supervisor for IRVINE01 mission on the  IRVINE Cubesat STEM Program,, 2015 to date

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

IAF Space Security Committee - Permanent Member
American Association for Advancement of Science - AAAS - Fellow Member
Planetary Society - Member
International Academy of Astronautics - Corresponding Member

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Systems Engineer - Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil - UCSG - 1994
Astrobiology Professor - TERC - 2001

AWARDS AND HONORS

First Ecuadorian Astronaut, Ecuadorian Air Force - June 2007
One of 9 most successful men in Ecuador, HOGAR mag., July 2007
Medal 'Example for Youth' of Ecuadorian Gov., October 2007
Man of year, Ecuador, 2007
One of 4 most successful Ecuadorians, December 2007
Global Citizenship Award 2010 - March 2010
Hall of Fame of Lebanese descendants - November 2010
National Congress Medal VICENTE ROCAFUERTE to Scientific Merit - May 2011
Wall of illustrious Professionals of Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil, 1994 Best Alumni, May 2012 SCIENTIFIC MERIT Municipal Award - City Council of Samborondon - Ecuador - 2012
Medal University and Science - Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil, May 2013
Medal Battle of Pichincha - M.I. Provincial Council of Pichincha Province, May 2013
Medal Joint Armed Forces for Exceptional Services to the Nation - Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces - Ecuador - 2013
LaSalle SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE Award - LaSalle Ex-Alumni National Board - Ecuador - 2013
IAC 2015 Ambassador - International Astronautical Federation - 2015
 
Ronnie Nader clad in the Orlan-M EVA space suit
ORCID Register
 

PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Astronautics: The PEGASUS Incident: The loss of the 1st Ecuadorian satellite and its recovery
Astronautics: The Ecuadorian experience in space: The NEE-Alpha constellation
 Astronautics: NEE-01 PEGASUS: THE FIRST ECUADORIAN SATELLITE
 Astronautics: LOW COST ULTRATHIN DEPLOYABLE MULTIPANEL SOLAR ARRAYS FOR 1U CUBESATS
 Astronautics: CYCLOPS: REAL TIME VIDEO TRANSMISSION FROM ORBIT ON A 1U CUBESAT MISSION
Astronautics: CARBON NANOTUBES BASED THERMAL DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSFER BUS SYSTEM  FOR 1U CUBESATS
Astronautics: SEAM/NEMEA:  THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT ATTENUATION MANIFOLD SHIELD FOR NANOSATELLITES
Astronautics: ARGOS: HYPER AMPLIFICATION MANIFOLD FOR ENHANCING GROUND STATION RECEPTION
Astronautics: SELF DEPLOYING ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR NANOSATELLITES BASED ON SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS
Astronautics: SESCA: SPACE ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION CHAMBER FOR ACCURATE GROUND TESTING OF NANOSATELLITES
Astronautics: HIGH ENERGY DENSITY MULTI CELL BATTERY ARRAY FOR NANOSATELLITES
Astronautics: HIGH POWER, LOW NOISE BOOSTER FOR POWER AMPLIFICATION ON NANO SATELLITES RADIO TRANSCEIVERS
Astronautics:  NANOSATELLITE SENSOR ARRAY AND ON-SCREEN VIDEO TELEMETRY SYSTEM
 Telecommunications: Project HERMES, the first Internet-to-Orbit gateway
Cybernetics: The HIPERION Reactive Alert Network: A nation-wide information system for providing real time information about current UV index.
 Astronautics: The Ecuadorian Civilian Space Program: A 10 year low cost civilian space exploration and research program aimed to provide academic institutions with low cost access to space research facilities, based on the use of commercially available launching systems and in house developed technology.
Astronautics: The Young researcher Microgravity Training Program YMTP: A training program aimed to provide young researchers with the endurance, capabilities and methods that enable them to perform scientific research in microgravity parabolic flights.
Aeronautics: The Multivectorial Gravimetric Computing Platform: A information system capable to compute in real time the needed in-flight vector elements for a plane to trace the near-perfect parabolic flight path to induce a reduced gravity environment for a predefined time.
Aeronautics: Aerospace Mission Planning: The planning and information flow for parabolic flight scientific research missions
Astronautics: ESAA-01: The planning of a low cost suborbital space research manned mission
Astrobiology: The universal laws of life: how the laws of complexity rule the physics, chemistry and mathematics of the complex autocatalytic open systems.
Astrobiology: Complex Autocatalytic Open Systems: a cybernetics description of life.

The full list of his scientific work can be found here

NON TECHNICAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS EN APOYO AL DESARROLLO DEL ECUADOR - NATIONAL WAR INSTITUTE MAG. 2008 ISSUE - spanish
MY ROAD TO THE STARS - ECUADORIAN AIR FORCE COLLEGE , 2008 ISSUE - english
LETTER TO THE NATION: Open letter to the Ecuadorian people  - spanish
AN APRIL'S NIGHT: Speech to the National Assembly accepting the National Medal to Scientific Merit   - spanish