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| Founded in 1985 by [[James C. Bennett|Jim Bennett]], the '''American Rocket Company''', or '''AMROC''', was a company that developed hybrid rocket motors.
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| It had over 200 [[Hybrid rocket|hybrid rocket motor]] test firings ranging from 4.5 kN to 1.1 MN at [[NASA]]'s [[Stennis Space Center]]'s E1 test stand.
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| Amroc planned to develop the [[Industrial Launch Vehicle]] (ILV).
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| Its 5 October 1989 launch of the [[SET-1]] [[sounding rocket]] was unsuccessful.
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| The company became insolvent and was shut down in 1995. Its intellectual property was acquired in 1999 by [[SpaceDev]], and its lineage is part of [[SpaceShipOne]].
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