1998 – Parabilis Co-Founders Frank Macklin, Chris Grainger, Richard Slansky, Dave Streich, Dr. Shannon Eilers and Anthony Gemmill joined SpaceDev Corporation, a public aerospace company founded in 1997 that was the world’s first commercial space exploration and development company.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first private enterprise to put a human in space, winning the Ansari X Prize and creating the world’s first private astronaut. Current Parabilis senior engineers, while working at SpaceDev, designed and developed the hybrid rocket systems and components that were used on this historic flight.
2009 – Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) acquires SpaceDev, and continued design and development of SpaceShipTwo rocket motors and other projects in San Diego County until 2014 when the facility was closed, and propulsion operations were moved to other SNC locations.
2014 – Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc. is founded by former SpaceDev leaders to build the next generation of high-performance propulsion systems. Today, Parabilis delivers flight-proven solid-liquid hybrid and chemical propulsion solutions for space and airborne platforms—combining rapid schedules, safe propellants, and system-level simplicity.