Aaron Cassebeer
Chief Operating Officer
Aaron Cassebeer has been designing, building, and testing prototype air and ground vehicles for over twenty years. His focus is the rapid prototyping of clean-sheet designs, and he has significant experience across all stages of vehicle development. He is the Chief Product Officer at Stratolaunch, responsible for the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management departments. He was Chief Engineer of the Talon-A hypersonic vehicle development program from concept through Critical Design Review. Previously, Aaron worked at Scaled Composites where he was Director of Engineering. While at Scaled, he brough four clean-sheet aircraft from concept to flight test, including SpaceShipTwo, Roc, and the Model 401. These vehicles included a supersonic rocket powered glider, the world’s largest aircraft, and two subsonic technology demonstrators. His areas of technical depth include rapid prototyping, structures, composites, mechanical systems, fluid systems, flight controls, systems engineering, ground testing, and flight test engineering. Before Scaled, Aaron designed, build, and tested four composite open-wheel racecars in four years and worked at the Skip Barber Racing School as a mechanic and pit crew member. He graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
