Micro-Space

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Micro-Space is a Colorado corporation founded in 1977.

While one of the smaller teams participating in the Ansari X Prize competition, this company has an active aerospace program flying innovative liquid fueled rockets. A long history of flying small rockets with telemetry, tracking and control systems demonstrates its focus on the fundamental systems necessary for unmanned - and eventually manned - suborbital and orbital launch systems. While its operational systems are most appropriate for atmospheric research, the company claims to have produced modules which, if clustered, could power a "spartan" manned launch.

Seventeen liquid fueled, bipropellant rockets were successfully flown by 2006, with altitudes to 11,000 feet. Hydrogen peroxide and methyl alcohol were the fuels.

Micro-Space also boasts of operational prototypes suitable for long duration life support and other needs of lunar and interplanetary missions, including Mars landing.

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