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'''Starstruck Inc''' was a company |
'''Starstruck Inc.''' was a company cofounded by [[James C. Bennett|James Bennett]] and [[Phil Salin]] that attempted to perform low-cost orbital rocket launches using experimental, sea-launched [[hybrid rocket]]s.<ref name=freeminds /> While a commercial failure, it is an important part of hybrid rocket history,<ref>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</ref> responsible for restarting commercial development of hybrid rockets.<ref>History of Hybrid Rockets. {{cite web |url=http://www.hybridraketen.de/Homepage/Old/Antares/Hybridraketen/history.htm |title=History of hybrid rockets / Geschichte der Hybridraketen |access-date=2008-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210094147/http://www.hybridraketen.de/Homepage/Old/Antares/Hybridraketen/history.htm |archive-date=2008-12-10 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hawkfeather.com/rockets/hybrids1.html |title=Hybrid Rockets |publisher=Hawkfeather.com |access-date=2010-04-30}}</ref> One of its core leadership was former first Apple CEO [[Michael Scott (Apple)|Michael Scott]]. It was based in Redwood City, California.<ref name=morrall>{{Cite web |title=Hotels in Outer Space & Phil Salin & the Rocket Co. in RWC |date=March 27, 2007 |author=June Morrall |work=Half Moon Bay Memories |url=https://halfmoonbaymemories.com/2007/03/hotels-in-outer-space/ |access-date=2020-12-09}}</ref><ref name=freeminds>{{cite book |title=Free Minds & Free Markets: Twenty-five Years of Reason |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/freemindsfreemar00pool/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22Phil+Salin%22 |page=52 |quote=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. |publication-date=1993 |publisher=Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy |location=San Francisco |editor-last1=Poole |editor-first1=Robert W. Jr. |editor-link1=Robert W. Poole, Jr. |editor-last2=Postrel |editor-first2=Virginia I. |editor-link2=Virginia Postrel |isbn=0-936488-72-7 |chapter=Space Entrepreneurs |author-first=Patrick |author-last=Cox |date=January 1985 |access-date=2020-12-09}}</ref> |
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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|American Rocket Company (AMROC)]],<ref>David P. Gump. (1990). Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA. Praeger Publishers, New York. pp 28-31.</ref> which also eventually failed. AMROC's intellectual property was acquired by [[SpaceDev]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} |
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== See also == |
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Latest revision as of 20:32, 10 March 2024
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
[edit]- Jim Schefter. (May 1984) High-tech Rockets on the Cheap. Popular Science
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Cox, Patrick (January 1985). "Space Entrepreneurs". In Poole, Robert W. Jr.; Postrel, Virginia I. (eds.). Free Minds & Free Markets: Twenty-five Years of Reason. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (published 1993). p. 52. ISBN 0-936488-72-7. 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ History of Hybrid Rockets. "History of hybrid rockets / Geschichte der Hybridraketen". Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
- ^ "Hybrid Rockets". Hawkfeather.com. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- ^ June Morrall (March 27, 2007). "Hotels in Outer Space & Phil Salin & the Rocket Co. in RWC". Half Moon Bay Memories. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ^ David P. Gump. (1990). Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA. Praeger Publishers, New York. pp 28-31.
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