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About
Chandler Luzsicza is founder and CEO of Galadyne, a defense company developing liquid-propellant missile systems for scalable production. Before Galadyne, he worked on propulsion at SpaceX, including Starship. Galadyne publicly launched on February 3, 2026 with a $4.8 million pre-seed round from Andreessen Horowitz and Pax Ventures. Luzsicza argues that liquid propulsion can decouple missile airframe production from constrained solid-rocket-motor supply chains while preserving operationally familiar deployment.
Previous roles
- Lead Propulsion Engineer, Starship, SpaceX
- Saronic
Notable work
- Founded Galadyne to develop scalable liquid-propulsion missile platforms and publicly detailed a staged product architecture spanning strike and interceptor systems.
- Worked on SpaceX's Dragon and Starship propulsion programs, including serving as the responsible engineer for Dragon's Draco engine and as a lead propulsion engineer on Starship.
- Outlined Galadyne's planned 1,000-kilometer-class, containerized strike platform using storable liquid propellants.
- Authored the technical essay ‘Five Months, Three Weeks,’ comparing missile propulsion architectures and their production constraints.
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