BluShift Aerospace

bluShift Aerospace
Company typeLaunch services
IndustryAerospace
FoundedMarch 2014; 10 years ago (2014-03)
FoundersSascha Deri
Headquarters
74 Orion St.
Brunswick, Maine
,
United States
Key people
Sascha Deri, CEO
David Hayrikyan, CTO
Luke Saindon, SME
Brook Halvorson, LTE
Seth Lockman, CD
Brady Brim-DeForest, Chairman
Peter Murray, Board Member
ProductsHybrid rocket engines
Biofuel
Launch vehicles
ServicesSub-orbital and orbital transportation
Number of employees
12 (2022)
Websiteblushift.aero

BluShift Aerospace (sometimes stylized as bluShift Aerospace) is an employee-owned American aerospace firm based in Brunswick, Maine. Targeting the growing smallsat and cubesat launch markets, bluShift is developing suborbital sounding rockets and small-lift orbital rockets which will be launched from a proposed new spaceport in Maine. The company has received primary funding from NASAs SBIR grant program, the National Science Foundations I-Corps grant program, the Maine Technology Institute, and the Maine Space Grant Consortium.[1] The company has active operations at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station and Loring Air Force Base.[2]

  1. ^ "One Small Step for Maine". The Maine Mag. 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  2. ^ Peters, Brooks (2020-09-29). "Brunswick aerospace company sets date for rocket launch". Press Herald. Retrieved 2020-10-27.