ANDREW DIDDLE
Profile:
Organized and action-oriented science operations and payload design specialist with +6 years of experience in space systems engineering, rapid prototyping and end-to-end payload integration activities. Contributed to the development of 70+ biological, manufacturing, and R&D focused payloads with experiments conducted on the ISS and have supported launch preparation and payload integration activities for over 20 SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Northrup Grumman missions. At Exobiosphere, Andrew serves as systems engineer, and ensures that payload designs meet mission requirements from concept through launch.
Work History:
2025 - Current: Exobiosphere, Luxembourg Space Systems Engineer
Ideating design of subsystem architecture, ensuring hardware specifications and capability to support defined scientific, engineering, safety, and user requirements. Development of verification tests for subsystem functionality. Implementation of controlled environment procedures for hardware integration.
2018 - 2023: Space Tango, USA Laboratory Manager, Payload Assembly & Science Integration Facility
Established corporate standards and best practices to support launch integration for 30+ academic, commercial, and federal customers (NASA, NIH, NSF), while developing a dedicated Science Integration and Payload Assembly Facility. Led cross-functional efforts on capability milestones, budgeting, and staffing, achieving BSL2 certification and implementing compliance, safety, and inventory systems. Developed SOPs, training programs, and novel protocols for aseptic payload integration.
2018 - 2023: Space Tango, USA Systems Engineer / Project Scientist
Interfaced with stakeholders and principal investigators to translate terrestrial protocols into microgravity-compatible payloads, architect hardware configurations for pressurized orbital platforms, and ensure subsystem designs met project requirements. Led biological hardware development, coordinated cross-functional teams to manage schedules and risks, and conducted terrestrial verification tests.
2017 - 2018: MSU Space Science Center, USA Graduate Assistantship
Designed and built a custom Class-10,000 cleanroom for microfluidic system fabrication and testing, and developed custom microfluidic circuits and experimental equipment through CAD modeling, simulation, and 3D printing.
EDUcation:
Morehead State University, USA M.S. in Space Systems Engineering
University of Louisville, USB.S. in Cellular Physiology
notable projects/ patents:
LambdaVision “Biomanufacturing protein-based artificial retinas in the microgravity environment”; University of California San Diego; “The Effect of Microgravity on Human Brain Organoids”; Sanford Consortium, Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research (ISSCOR) Center; “Transduced Stromal Co-Cultures of Human Bone Marrow in Microgravity”; University of Florida, AdventHealth Research Institute; “Human Muscle Contraction Response in Microgravity, Human Muscle-on-Chip”.
Provisional Patent (Expired, 2019). Enhancing the Robustness of Hemp Plants. (Exposing hemp seeds to the microgravity environment.)