The company is among dozens working on affordable ways to launch nano satellites.
Feb 01, 2021 09:30:47 IST
A Maine company that’s developing a rocket to propel small satellites into space passed its first major test on Sunday. Brunswick-based bluShift Aerospace launched a 20-foot (6-meter) prototype rocket, hitting an altitude of a little more than 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) in a first run designed to test the rocket’s propulsion and control systems. It carried a science project by Falmouth High School students that will measure flight metrics such as barometric pressure, a special alloy that’s being tested by a New Hampshire company and a Dutch dessert called stroopwafel, in an homage to its Amsterdam-based parent company.
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