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Mysterious News Briefly — February 2, 2021 BluShift Aerospace in Brunswick, Maine, successfully launched its Stardust 1.0 rocket from an abandoned Air Force base – a rocket the company’s CEO claims was powered by nontoxic biofuel so safe that he could “give it to one [his] daughters’ without it having any adverse effects.” No adverse effects other than his daughter never speaking to him again because she thought it was her first real cocktail. Claire Elise Boucher, better known as t...

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Over the weekend, a first in rocketry successfully took off from northern Maine. On Sunday, bluShift Aerospace out of Brunswick, launched their Stardust Gen.1 rocket. Liftoff took place at Loring Commerce Centre, in Limestone. The rocket is the first in the world to be powered by bio-derived fuel. The company says the non-toxic biofuel can be cheaply soured from farms, and is carbon-neutral. The launch also marked Maines first commercial rocket launch. The company hopes to establish a s...

news We want to be the Uber service to space Snow swirled and a biting wind sent temperatures plummeting to several degrees below zero as the Stardust 1.0 made its debut at a former military base in Maine. Strapped to a trailer and pulled by a pick-up truck along a runway once used by B-52 bombers in the Cold War, it wasnt the most glamorous entrance for a rocket about to make history. And it very nearly didnt as the subzero conditions played havoc with the electronics and clouds moved in. But ...

Stardust 1.0 has become the first commercial launch of a rocket powered by bio-derived fuel.

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A prototype rocket from the US thats powered by biofuel passed its first major test flight on Sunday.   The rocket, called Stardust 1.0, was developed by a firm called BluShift Aerospace, which is based in Brunswick in Maine.   The 20-foot (six metre) prototype rocket reached an altitude of just over 4,000 feet (1,219 metres) during its maiden run, which was designed to test the rockets propulsion and control systems. Video footage shows Stardust 1.0 blasting off from the former Loring Air ...

Courtesy Photo bluShift Aerospace, the Brunswick company with dreams of launching satellites into Earth orbit from Maine, launched its first rocket on Sunday. Just 20 feet tall, the rocket ascended less than a mile into the sky over the former Loring Air Force base in Limestone. But it proved the feasibility of the company’s first-of-its-kind biofuel and engine design. It was the first commercial rocket launch from Maine and the first time anywhere that a commercial rocket had been launched...

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