Sascha Deri & Seth Lockman (aerospace & engineering)

<p><a href="https://www.blushiftaerospace.com/team-blog/sascha-deri" target="_blank">Sascha Deri</a> is the CEO of <a href="https://blushiftaerospace.com/" target="_blank">bluShift Aerospace</a>, and <a href="https://www.blushiftaerospace.com/team-blog/seth-lockman" target="_blank">Seth Lockman</a> is the Communications Director. Founded in 2014, bluShift Aerospace has designed a bio-derived rocket fuel and a modular hybrid rocket engine. Building on these technologies bluShift will create a family of launch systems, the largest of which can lift 30-kilogram payloads to low-Earth orbit. These new suborbital and orbital launch systems will dramatically reduce the environmental impact, cost, and wait times of current cubesat launch services. By launching these rockets in the state, bluShift plans to create over 40 aerospace jobs in Maine in the next 5 years, and to bring revenue from the rapidly growing cubesat launch market into the state. bluShift Aerospace is headquartered at TechPlace, at Brunswick Landing. </p><p>Seth presented at the <a href="https://www.mainesciencefestival.org/msf-showcase-events/" target="_blank">MSF Showcase Event</a> <i>5 Minute Genius</i> in 2019 (stepping in for Sascha). You can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIqJ-yvGVww&list=PLoUtjF9XPKP3qjXwl_8LEKobahW6Pf1US&index=4" target="_blank">see his video</a> at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClMpumvhoSneE-vV2ZiXCzg" target="_blank">MSF YouTube channel</a>, and Sascha had been scheduled to presented at the 2020 Maine Science Festival before it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. </p><p>To sign up for the live stream of their launch (now scheduled for October 28, 2020 at 7am, EDT), go to  <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/120562875807">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/120562875807</a>.</p><p>You can connect with bluShift at <a href="mailto:marketing@blushiftaerospace.com">marketing@blushiftaerospace.com</a>; and you can find out more about the Maine Space Grant Consortium that Sascha mentioned at <a href="https: