Vector Launch, Inc. (formerly Vector Space Systems) is an American space technology company which aims to launch suborbital and orbital payloads. Vector Launch declared bankruptcy in December 2019 and re-emerged in October 2020.[5]
History
The company's first CEO was Jim Cantrell,[6] who co-founded the company with John Garvey, Shaun Coleman, Ken Sunshine, and Eric Besnard.[7] Cantrell had previously helped Elon Musk found SpaceX in 2001.[8] Vector Launch, Inc. received US$1 million in seed angel funding from entrepreneur Shaun Coleman soon after its foundation in 2016 and additionally $21 million from Sequoia Capital, Shasta Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners