BluShift Aerospace

bluShift Aerospace
Company typeLaunch services
IndustryAerospace
FoundedMarch 2014 (2014-03)
FoundersSascha Deri
Headquarters
2 Pegasus Street,
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
ProductsBoosters
Hybrid rocket engines
Biofuel
Launch vehicles
ServicesSub-orbital and orbital transportation
Number of employees
12 (2022)
Websiteblushiftaerospace.com

BluShift Aerospace (sometimes stylized as bluShift Aerospace) is an employee-owned American aerospace firm based in Brunswick, Maine with West Coast offices in Concord, California. Targeting the growing defense, booster, and smallsat/cubesat launch markets, bluShift is developing suborbital sounding rockets and small-lift orbital rockets which will provide geo-independent agile launch capabilities. The company has received primary funding from venture investors, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASAs SBIR grant program, the National Science Foundations I-Corps grant program, the Maine Technology Institute, and the Maine Space Grant Consortium. The company has active operations at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station and Loring Air Force Base.