Aron Lentsch

Founder and general manager

Aron started his career at the European Space Agency's ESTEC Centre as a young graduate, then spent two years at the Japanese National Aerospace Laboratory NAL (today, JAXA), and worked at the Ariane launcher directorate of the French Space Agency (CNES). His professional activites covered various aspects of future space transportation systems, ranging from system design, structure, aerodynamics, and most of all propulsion systems (scramjet and rocket). 

Convinced that private, commercial space flight holds the most promising potential for the future, Aron decided to found Orbspace in mid 2006. 

Dr. Klaus Legner

Aerospace Medicine

Klaus started his career as flight surgeon at the Austrian Air Force medical care center. He worked as a flight surgeon at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ESA's European Astronaut Center in Cologne, and he is currently responsible for flight safety and security training in Austrian Airlines.

His professional activities and expertise cover the medical evaluation, assistance and crew support of astronauts for launch & landing operations and post-landing crew support. Klaus lectures on space medicine and provides scientific consulting for medical aspects such as for ESA's Aurora program on interplanetary long-duration missions. He has also performed a range of scientific activities on space medicine.

Klaus is a passionate private pilot and diver as well as mountaineer, and he has received special medical training for diving and hyperbaric medicine as well as mountain and expedition medicine.

Rafael Moro-Aguilar

Space Law and Commercialization

Rafael received his J.D. from the Autonoma University of Madrid (Spain) and his LL.M. from the University of Michigan (USA). 

The United Nations (UN) Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) was one of the first steps in Rafael's professional career. He regularly attends UN meetings such as the Unispace-3 Conference (1999), where he participated in the Space Generation Forum, and the UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee annual sessions (2002 to present), as an advisor to the Spanish government. For a number of years, he has been a legal consultant (sole practitioner), collaborating with a number of law firms and companies in Spain and elsewhere, drafting and translating contracts and legal documents, and researching and preparing reports on space technology issues. He joined Orbspace in 2006.

Rafael lectures regularly on international space law and satellite telecommunications law, and he is author of a range of articles and a book (in progress) on international space law. He is a member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) and the Space law Committee of the International Law Association (ILA). He is also a graduate of the International Space University (ISU - SSP 1996).