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Liftoff has been rescheduled for 11 a.m. from the runway on what was once the Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, in northern Maine.

Weather delays launch of biofuel rocket made by Maine company Share Updated: 2:52 PM EST Jan 15, 2021 By Alice Keefe Share Updated: 2:52 PM EST Jan 15, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WMTW NEWS 8S ALICE KEEFE HAS A PREVIEW OF WHAT TO EXPECT.. 1:35-1:41 THIS IS THE FIRST COMMERCIAL LAUNCH OF A ROCKET IN THE STATE OF MAINE THAT I AM AWARE OF MAINE NATIVE SASCHA DERI IS THE CEO AND FOUNDER OF BLUSHIFT... AN AEROSPACE START UP BUILDING ROCKETS... POWERED BY B...

Brunswick aerospace company to launch its first rocket bluShift, located at the former Navy base, plans to launch its first rocket fueled by a first-of-its-kind biofuel in Limestone Friday. Share BRUNSWICK — After more than five years of planning and development, Brunswick-based bluShift Aerospace plans to launch its first rocket powered by a new biofuel Friday morning in Limestone. The launch is scheduled for 8 a.m., pending results from testing bluShift conducted Thursday. The launch will ...

First Rocket Powered By Biofuel To Launch From Maine This Weekend After a weather delay, a first in rocketry will take off from northern Maine this weekend. A rocket powered by biofuel will launch from Loring Commerce Centre, in Limestone. It will be the first rocket in the world to be launched using bio-derived fuel, and Maines first commercial rocket launch. The take-off was set for Jan. 15, but was delayed and eventually scrubbed due to weather. Now it looks like Sunday, Jan. 31 is marked ...

The countdown was underway Friday for the launch of the world's first commercial rocket powered by biofuel, set to take off from Loring Commerce Centre in Limestone. 

The blueShitf's launch could even revolutionize the space travel's future, running on biofuel. See for yourself here.

At the former Loring Air Force base in Limestone, where B-52s once flew, a new kind of rocket is to take flight Friday.

BluShift Aerospace has created a prototype rocket engine to power the first commercial launch of a rocket powered by bio-derived fuel anywhere in the world.

bluShift Aerospace’s successful test Tuesday afternoon of its hybrid rocket engine puts the Brunswick company in position to launch its first rocket prototype, likely later this month. Called a “static fire test” because the engine is secured so it can’t move, the test occurred within a concrete blast wall in a field at Brunswick Landing, where bluShift is headquartered. A blast of combustion lasted for a few seconds, followed by smoke and then an afterburn. The test was livestreamed. ...

The first rocket will carry a variety of cargo, from science experiments to ... Danish cookies known as stroopwafels. Software design and development company Rocket Insights will fill their cubesat space with the Danish wafer cookies as an homage to its Amsterdam-based parent company, Deri said. "Theyve asked us to load up stroopwafel, which is a fine dessert, into the payload section, and we will be launching their stroopwafel up," Deri said. Falmouth High School science classes will send equi...