Project Information

Who Are We

Pablo de Leon and Associates (Pablo de Leon y Asociados) is an Argentine-based team formed to design, build and operate a suborbital space transportation system.
Our team was created to compete for the Ansari X Prize and was accepted by the X Prize Foundation on February 10, 1997.
Our team is formed by Argentine specialists in several fields, including propulsion, mechanical design, aerodynamics, thermal systems, cryogenics, computer science, etc.

Pablo de Leon, Team Leader, is an Argentine aerospace engineer with wide experience in space systems design, project management and development of space vehicles and components.

More than 42 scientists, engineers, technicians and volunteers have worked on this program for years in order to one day achieve the first suborbital manned flight in Latin America.

Why We Do It.

Our team, conscientious of the past, believes it is necessary to learn from those who preceded us, and reach a level of technological development comparable with the times.
If Argentina wants to be once more an industrialized nation, we need to invest heavily in science and technology.
That is why we are working in this project, because we believe it is valuable and it will help to inspire a new generation of young Argentines and Latin Americans.


Space research in Argentina