Starchaser Industries

Starchaser Industries Ltd
Formation1998
Legal statusPrivate company
PurposeCommercial Space Access/ Space Tourism and Educational Outreach
Location
  • Unit 7, Hyde Point, Dunkirk Lane, Hyde, Greater Manchester, SK14 4NL
Region served
UK
Chief Executive
Steve Bennett
WebsiteStarchaser Industries

Starchaser Industries is a privately-owned space tourism company based in the UK. Formed in 1992, the company designed and built several prototype rocket systems for space tourism vehicles. Starchaser's rocket NOVA 1 launched in 2001 from Morecambe Bay. The vehicle holds the UK record for the biggest successful rocket launch fired from the British mainland. Starchaser operate an Educational Outreach Programme that aims to take areas of physics and chemistry and explain their use in rocket building.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.