Our Take
Vector may be “small” but they are very well known in the space world. It would be interesting to know what package the folks at the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska are offering to get Vector’s business as it is very difficult to compete with the Cape and its already-established infrastructure.
But this scene may have represented something much more than that. With its small-scale test Saturday, the company Vector Space Systems took another step toward upending the rapidly expanding small satellite launch market. Not since the Germans and their V-2 rockets during World War II has anyone launched more than a few dozen of the same rockets per year.