Christopher Bostwick Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Huntington Beach, California, Us

Huntington Beach, California, Us

As GSC's Chief Engineer and as GSC's propulsion manager before that, Mr. Bostwick has overseen design and development of all our major vehicle propulsion systems since 2007. He originally became involved in these programs while an undergraduate student at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and since then he has participated in the development of fourteen vehicles and the design and testing of eight liquid propulsion engines. His most recent projects in addition to the Phase I SBIR include serving as the PI on an on-going 2015 NASA STTR for the design of a high-performance NLV upper stage, analysis lead for an on-going AFRL-funded study for next generation small launch vehicles, PI on a 2011 NASA Phase II SBIR for the development of a LOX/propylene engine and a suborbital test vehicle, PI on a NASA Phase I SBIR program which culminated in the production and static test firing of a prototype NLV booster stage, managing the P-18 suborbital reusable Launch Vehicle under contract with NASA LSP for high altitude flight services and managing the P-15 vehicle airframe under the ORBITEC vortex engine flight test demonstration project. He has six years of work experience as an aerospace engineer.

• Intern with on campus rocket program, California Launch Vehicle Education Initiative -Designed the propulsion system for seven flown bi-prop liquid rockets -Lead for propulsion system fabrication and integration -Lead in design and manufacturing of the injector for a 500 lbf bi-prop liquid rocket engine that was successfully static fire tested under a NASA phase I STTR -Experience working with cryogenic propellants: LOX, LCH4 -Experienced with field testing propulsion systems -Member of the IRAD development teams/test crews for the first flight uses of both the LOX/methane and the LOX/propylene propellant combinations• Past programs include: (customer/program and scope) -MDA: flight of test bed vehicle for annular aerospike engine technology -AFRL SBIR Phase II: flight of test vehicle to develop reusable rocket technology -NASA Marshall STTR phase I: engine SFT to investigate method of chamber cooling -NASA Marshall STTR phase I: subscale investigation of green hypergolic propellants -NASA Ames STTR phase I: vehicle to develop wireless technology for launch vehicles