Ben Schleuniger

CEO | Co-Founder at Orbital Operations

Co-founder

Orbital Operations· Winter 2025🇺🇸 Huntington Beach, California, United States

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2024Co-founder· Orbital Operations

Founder · since 2024

Company

Orbital Operations

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Long Beach, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Orbital Operations

High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense

Winter 2025

Experience

Career

Orbital Operations
Co-founder
CEO | Co-Founder · Long Beach, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Relativity Space
Lead Propulsion Engineer - Integrated Design and Analysis · Long Beach, California, United States · 2024
2024
Relativity Space
Senior Propulsion Engineer · 2022 – 2024
2022
Relativity Space
Lead Propulsion Components Engineer · Long Beach, California, United States · 2021 – 2022
2021
Relativity Space
Propulsion Components Development Engineer II · Long Beach, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Relativity Space
Propulsion Components Development Engineer I · Greater Los Angeles Area · 2018 – 2020
2018
SpaceX
Post Graduate Engineer · Hawthorne, California · 2018
2018
Highlander Racing
Treasurer / Internal Combustion Vehicle Lead · Riverside, California · 2014 – 2018
2014
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Components Engineering Intern · Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville Area · 2017
2017
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Propulsion Design Intern · Marshall Space Flight Center · 2016
2016

Bio

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.