[2] bluShift Aerospace was founded on the vision of rockets powered by a bio-derived fuel, making them safer for handlers and the environment.

[3] State Senator Shenna Bellows sponsored legislation to support the development of a spaceport and launch site in Maine.

[8] In June 2021, bluShift announced they had received their first purchase order from Virginia-based company Max IQ to launch scientific experiment payloads for universities and other research institutions.

[9] In October 2021 the company began constructing the full-scale MAREVL engine and performing a series of static fire tests, preceding the launch of Starless Rogue Beta, a scaled down version of the Starless Rogue suborbital launch vehicle.

In December 2021, after the team had scouted out locations earlier in the year, narrowed down a list of several potential sites on the coast of Hancock County and Washington County, and following the regulatory approval process with the local governments, the launch site was announced to be about 30 miles east of Bar Harbor near the towns of Jonesport and Beals.

In November 2023, bluShift participated in the inaugural Maine Space Conference in Portland, along with several other government, university, and private company participants in Maine's developing aerospace industry and from around New England, including bluShift partners Max IQ and Loring Commerce Center.

[12] In June of 2024, bluShift raised a $1.3M series seed in a round led by Houston based Late Stage Capital and Brady Brim-DeForest joined as Chairman.

MAREVL 2.0, the full-scale version to be used in Starless Rogue and Red Dwarf, is expected to produce 80 kilonewtons (18,000 lbf) of thrust and consume 30 kilograms (66 lb) of propellant (both fuel and oxidizer combined) per second.

The first static fire test in its campaign, a ~5-second long burn of the full-scale MAREVL 2.0 engine, was completed in March 2022.

[19] A single-stage reusable prototype with 8 kg (18 lb) payload capacity that can reach maximum altitudes of up to 4,000 ft (1.2 km).

[22] A scaled down version of Starless Rogue, with only a single stage with one MAREVL engine, used for high altitude and supersonic testing.

Appears to be no longer actively planned and its purpose replaced by the Stardust and Starless Rogue groups of vehicles.

They expect the stages to endure atmospheric reentry without many issues due to relatively low speeds, and the effects of salt-water on the rocket hardware will be negligible and will not add significantly to the refurbishment time.