Company:Starstruck

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Starstruck Inc. was a company cofounded by James Bennett and Phil Salin that attempted to perform low-cost orbital rocket launches using experimental, sea-launched hybrid rockets.[1] While a commercial failure, it is an important part of hybrid rocket history,[2] responsible for restarting commercial development of hybrid rockets.[3][4] One of its core leadership was former first Apple CEO Michael Scott. It was based in Redwood City, California.[5][1] The company folded after three rockets were built and one was successfully launched to suborbital space. Several veterans of Starstruck founded the American Rocket Company (AMROC),[6] which also eventually failed. AMROC's intellectual property was acquired by SpaceDev.[citation needed]

Sources

  1. Jim Schefter. (May 1984) High-tech Rockets on the Cheap. Popular Science

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Space Entrepreneurs". Free Minds & Free Markets: Twenty-five Years of Reason. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. January 1985 (published 1993). p. 52. ISBN 0-936488-72-7. https://archive.org/details/freemindsfreemar00pool/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22Phil+Salin%22. Retrieved 2020-12-09. "Phil Salin ... a cofounder of StarStruck, uses this thought experiment to drive home a main point: A dramatic reduction in the cost of getting there is the key to developing space for human use." 
  2. ↑ Arif Karabeyoglu. (2008, May 09). Hybrid Rocket Propulsion for Future Space Launch. Aero/Astro 50th Year Anniversary. http://aa.stanford.edu/events/50thAnniversary/media/Karabeyoglu.pdf
  3. ↑ History of Hybrid Rockets. "History of hybrid rockets / Geschichte der Hybridraketen". http://www.hybridraketen.de/Homepage/Old/Antares/Hybridraketen/history.htm. 
  4. ↑ "Hybrid Rockets". Hawkfeather.com. http://www.hawkfeather.com/rockets/hybrids1.html. 
  5. ↑ June Morrall (March 27, 2007). "Hotels in Outer Space & Phil Salin & the Rocket Co. in RWC". Half Moon Bay Memories. https://halfmoonbaymemories.com/2007/03/hotels-in-outer-space/. 
  6. ↑ David P. Gump. (1990). Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA. Praeger Publishers, New York. pp 28-31.

See also

SeaLaunch





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