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Saudi Space Agency

Saudi Space Agency is Saudi Arabia's national space agency, with agency status dating to June 2023 after the earlier Saudi Space Commission structure.^[1] Its public leadership history includes Muhammad al-Tamimi as acting CEO from 2021 to May 2025, before his move to the National Emergency Management Authority.^[2]^[3] For EO buyers, SSA should not be treated as the owner of SaudiSat-5A/5B or as an EO operator on the basis of SHAMS: SaudiSat-5A/5B are KACST Earth observation programmes, and SHAMS is a space-weather CubeSat rather than an EO satellite.^[4]^[5]

Sources

[1]Saudi Space Agency - Saudipediaagency doc2026-06-20Official Saudipedia entry; founding as commission 2018, agency status June 2023
[2]Saudi Space Agency - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20Founding, restructuring, leadership, key programs
[3]Dr. Mohammed bin Saud Al-Tamimi - Saudi Winsthird party2026-06-20CEO background and May 2025 transition to NEMA role
[4]KACST completes SaudiSat-5A and 5B - SpaceWatch Globalthird party2026-06-20SaudiSat EO birds are KACST programs, confirming SSA/KACST separation
[5]SHAMS satellite - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20SHAMS is space weather CubeSat on Artemis II HEO, not EO

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:saudi-space-agency,
  title = {Saudi Space Agency},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/saudi-space-agency}
}