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Dumitru Popescu: Chief Executive Officer
Dumitru Popescu: President
The team started 17 years ago as a Non-Profit Org. They've built and launched aerospace vehicles that made ARCA one of the most well known organizations involved in the development of private space flight.
2004 - During the 10 million $ Ansari X Prize Competition, ARCA successfully launched its first rocket, Demonstrator 2B.
2006 -
ARCA built the world's largest solar balloon that lifted into the stratosphere the crewb capsule of Stabilo, a manned suborbital vehicle created after the end of Ansari X Prize Competition.
2007 - The Stabilo program continued, this time with an even larger solar balloon lifting the complete Stabilo vehicle into the stratosphere.
2008 - ARCA joined the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize Competition and in 2013 the team withdrew from the Competition, their main activity focusing on the development of commercially available products.
2010 - Helen rocket was launched at 120,000 ft, the event representing the first powered flight in the Google Lunar X Prize Competition. The rocket was transported into the stratosphere with the help of an ARCA built helium balloon.
2012 - Haas rocket series was introduced, consisting of the sub-orbital Haas 2B and orbital Haas 2C rocket launchers. The development of these launchers is currently their main activity.
2013 - The European Space Agency awarded ARCA with a contract to test the parachutes system for the ExoMars spacecraft that will be launched to Mars in 2016. ARCA developed the hardware and performed the flight tests.
2014 - AirStrato performed the first flight at the beginning of this year and it is ARCA’s first product to become commercially available.
2014 - ARCA center of operations have moved from the European Union into the United States. ARCA Space Corporation, with the headquarters in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was established.
2015 - ArcaBoard hoverboard, the begining of a Revolution in Motion.
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