Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) is a non-governmental organization, that promotes innovative aerospace projects. Organizations main objectives are to win the GLXPC and to send in space the first romanian rocket, able to carry a cosmonaut.
ARCA joined the Ansari X Prize Competition in 2002 and became one of the leading teams. Starting with 2008 is competing for the GLXPC.
The main projects developed at ARCA where: the Demonstrator rockets, the Stabilo manned suborbital vehicle, the Helen unmanned suborbital rocket and Haas orbital rocket launcher.