bluShift Aerospace

Maine rocket company bluShift Aerospace had eyed the Downeast town as a potential site for offshore launches, as well as an operations and manufacturing plant.

The founder of the Brunswick-based rocket company bluShift Aerospace says he's pleased with its latest engine test.

The companies want to use bluShift's Starless Rogue beta rockets to conduct memorial services in space, where small payloads of up to 10 kilograms of cremated ashes may be launched and dispersed.

blu Shift Aerospace says Steuben appears willing to host its operations, including some rocket manufacturing, and controlling launches.

Brunswick-based bluShift Aerospace says it will continue to look for Maine launch sites as it goes ahead with plans to make its next launch from the Kennedy Space Center.

bluShift is hoping to launch a second rocket this year, eyeing an island off Jonesport. But the idea has been greeted by opposition in the town. Chief executive Sascha Deri told investors Thursday that bluShift is looking at alternatives for its next launch later this year.

The 60-to-4 vote at a special town meeting gives residents time to create an ordinance for aerospace facilities, after an upstart Brunswick company called bluShift Aerospace proposed a small-bore rocket-launch site on an island off the mainland.

Maine Rocket Company BluShift Aerospace says it has found an offshore launch site for its larger rockets and hopes to complete negotiations on a lease in a week or two

Maine rocket company bluShift Aerospace says it has raised more than $200,000 in the first phase of a crowd-sourcing campaign.

bluShift Aerospace, the Brunswick company with dreams of launching satellites into Earth orbit from Maine, launched its first rocket on Sunday.Just 20…