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Firehawk Aerospace wants to 3-D print rocket fuel and is moving to Dallas to join the space race [The Dallas Morning News ]
Rocket engine startup Firehawk Aerospace is moving to Dallas to grow its 3-D printed rocket fuel concept and join the space race as Texas becomes a growing hub in the commercial rocket world.
Firehawk is looking for space for its primary research facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth area after getting $1.2 million in investment funding from local startup fund Harlow Capital Management and CEO Colby Harlow.
The company is moving from Florida’s Space Coast, where Kennedy Space Center has long been a magnet for commercial space research.
Firehawk Aerospace extends seed funding to $2.5 million with $1.2 million from Harlow Capital TechCrunch 1/29/2021 Darrell Etherington
Rocket fuel technology startup Firehawk Aerospace has added $1.2 million to its existing seed financing, bringing the full amount invested in the round to $2.5 million. The new tranche comes from Harlow Capital Management, a Dallas-based firm run by Colby Harlow, who will join Firehawk s Board of Directors as part of the deal.
Firewhawk, which was a finalist in our first-ever all-virtual Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt last September, has developed a new kind of hybrid rocket fuel that greatly enhances rocket launch safety, cost and transportation using additive manufacturing (basically, the grown-up version of 3D printing). Hybrid rocket fuel (which combines aspects of both liquid and solid propellants used previously) isn t new, but past technology has been unable to compete on cost and efficacy relative to existing non-hyb