Images: Vector Space System's Microsatellite-Launching Rocket

Vector Space aims to begin launching its microsatellite-lofting rockets from Launch Complex 46 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in 2018. Take a look at the company’s novel commercial launch plan in pictures in our gallery here.

This image: Artist’s illustration of a Vector rocket lifting off. The two-stage version of the Vector-R is 45 feet (14 meters) tall and is designed to loft payloads weighing up to 140 lbs. (64 kilograms) to low-Earth orbit, at a cost of about $1.5 million per launch.

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