Company type | Launch services |
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Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | March 2014 |
Founders | Sascha 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 |
Products | Hybrid rocket engines Biofuel Launch vehicles |
Services | Sub-orbital and orbital transportation |
Number of employees | 12 (2022) |
Website | blushift |
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]