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BluShift plans to raise $500,000 to $1 million by November to complete 20 or more engine tests for fine-tuning to flight grade performance.

BluShift Aerospace, a Brunswick-based NewSpace startup, announced a new phase of rapid engine testing to optimize their carbon-neutral, biofuel powered MAREVL rocket engine. The company has also opened a new equity crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder. The “community round” campaign allows startups to raise capital from customers and supporters, alongside angel investors and VCs. The goal […]

Launch system developers are testing biofuels to ensure growth in orbital businesses is environmentally sustainable

BluShift Aerospace, a Brunswick-based company that makes small rockets, looks to build a manufacturing plant and mission control in Steuben.

The project will explore whether invisible bubbles can support water treatment on spaceships, and perhaps be used in other applications such as aquaculture and paper manufacturing.

Mainebiz photographer Fred J. Field took a look around this busy hub of technology on the Brunswick Landing campus. His photo essay, which appears in the 2022 Mainebiz Fact Book, depicts some of the businesses and people who have found a place at TechPlace.

Onur Apul, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at University of Maine, will lead a $1.1 million multi-institutional investigation backed by NASA to explore whether nanobubbles can support space exploration, including water treatment on spaceships. Through the Maine Space Grant Consortium, NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) awarded the project $753,750 grant. It […]

The AstroJays, an undergraduate rocketry team, traveled to California to compete in a Friends of Amateur Rocketry competition earlier this summer

The Brunswick startup’s business would put the Downeast region on the map and potentially create a wide variety of jobs from engineers to janitors.