Castelion

Last week at Castelion, the team conducted three static fires in less than 24 hours, flew two test flights with successful recoveries, and launched the company's new flight computer and control actuation system. ? To beat China, you need to learn faster than they do. That's what Castelion does.

In the face of grave threats, a special group of American men and women have always stood up to meet the challenge. Today, and every day, we thank them for their courage and commitment.? ? Happy Veteran's Day from all of us?at Castelion?

At Castelion, new grads have the opportunity to dive in and make an impact from day one - contributing to critical path projects and helping to shape the future of the company. "The pace of development at Castelion means that I immediately had the opportunity to start contributing to critical path projects. Working with personable engineers that have been with industry leaders for many years puts me in a position to learn from the best on a daily basis. Being given liberty over key aspects of multiple projects has allowed me to bring my own skills to the team and has accelerated my learning as a new grad engineer in a cutting-edge industry." - Austin Kainoa Lee, recent grad and Manufacturing Engineer at Castelion Ready to launch your career with purpose? Explore our open roles and see how you can help drive innovation at Castelion.

Test cadence at our Midland, TX, motor site continues to increase. Hardware-rich development forces our assumptions, modeling, and design choices to be maximally grounded in reality to achieve the best possible system design

Castelion is growing fast with exceptional talent from across the industry. 8 new team members have joined us in the past few weeks. ? Pictured here (left to right) are: ? Austin Kainoa Lee - Manufacturing Engineer I. Kainoa is a new Mechanical Engineering grad who led his Baja SAE Team at school. ? Kristoffer Edlund - Sr. Manufacturing Engineer. Kristoffer most recently spent 7 years in SpaceX as a Senior Manufacturing and Structures Engineer where he supported manufacturing of the Crew Dragon and Starlink spacecraft.? ? Tegan Counts - Head of Radar Seeker Development. Tegan has 20+ years of radar experience at Raytheon and L-3 Mustang where he directly contributed to the the development of seekers for SM-6, AMRAAM, Standard Attack Weapon and Small Diameter Bomb. ? Dr. Charles Hansen - Principal Radar Engineer. Charlie previously spent 21 years at Raytheon, where he played a key role in the development of high resolution radars for air-to-air weapons and aircraft, and served as the principal investigator for DARPA programs related to electronic warfare. ? Steven Laolagi - Mechanical Technician. Steve spent the past 9.5 years at SpaceX as a Senior Structures Technician and spent the previous 7 years at Robinson Helicopter.? ?

Castelion's first intern Jack Gangi is wrapping up his summer with the company and heading back the University of Michigan to continue his degree in Engineering Physics. Jack had this to say about his summer with us: "My experience interning at Castelion has been one of a kind. I was able to take projects from early design phases to reality as a responsible engineer - designing two recovery prototype designs that resulted in a cheaper and more effective recovery system. I also assisted in the design of the nose cone and avionics assemblies by making prototype models, conducting fit checks, routing harnessing, and supporting thermal and vibe testing. Truthfully, I don't think I could've asked for a better internship experience."

Castelion team continuing to drive rapid hardware development ahead of upcoming flight tests of our new hypersonic platform. Check out some of the new hardware.

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We’re excited to welcome our three newest teammates at Castelion - Zachary Taylor, Nandini Mukherjee and George Skeris.?All three of them have immediately contributed to delivering for our customers and we’re proud of what they’ve already been able to accomplish. ? Zach joins Castelion as our Principal Dynamics Engineer.?He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama, and is currently pursuing his PhD there as well. He most recently led Dynamics at ABL and comes with experience from Raytheon Missile Systems, Northrop Grumman, and Millennium Space. Zach’s deep skillset in advanced engineering analysis has helped to drive system architecture from his first day at Castelion. ? Nandini holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech. She brings with her extensive expertise in robotics and advanced mechatronics engineering – skills that she’s leveraging to design Castelion’s vehicle control mechanisms. ? George holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UF. George spent more than 5 years at SpaceX designing high performance test equipment for Crew Dragon, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy qualification and acceptance testing. George is now leading development on Castelion’s launcher system. ? Welcome to Castelion!?

Successful static fire of new Castelion 7" diameter motor complete this weekend - our first in Texas! ? The team shipped factory equipment from CA to TX, set up two new production and test facilities, cast and fired a new motor design in less than a month.?