BEN SCHLEUNIGER

Ben Schleungier is the Co-founder and CEO of Orbital Operations.

He started his career at NASA in propulsion before moving on to SpaceX and then as an early employee at Relativity Space. He owned the fluid systems for the TM1 rocket, the complex heat exchangers on the AeonR engine, and built the Components team and the Integrated Design and Analysis teams from the ground up.

Ben has an deep understanding of rocket engine design and analysis and building high performance engineering teams.