Stardust 1.0
Stardust 1.0, a small rocket developed by bluShift Aerospace, lifts off Jan. 31 on a low-altitude test flight designed to demonstrate the company's hybrid engine and other technologies.

A Maine startup made its first, albeit small, step towards space Jan. 31 with the successful launch of a rocket testing the engine technology it plans to use on future small launch vehicles.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...