# Vector Launch

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vector-launch/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Vector Launch, Inc. (originally Vector Space Systems) was an American small-launch and space software company founded in February 2016 in Tucson, Arizona by Jim Cantrell — an early SpaceX executive — with John Garvey, Shaun Coleman, Ken Sunshine and Eric Besnard. It acquired Garvey Spacecraft in July 2016 and developed two LOX/propylene micro-launch vehicles, the Vector-R and the larger Vector-H, aimed at a high-cadence smallsat launch market, alongside GalacticSky, a San Jose based software-defined-satellite platform that produced more than forty patents and was marketed in 2016 with a promised suite of satellite SDKs, APIs and a satellite-optimised Linux distribution called GalacticOS. Those developer surfaces were announced but never shipped publicly: Vector operated no developer portal, published no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL or Postman collection, ran no public GitHub organisation, and distributed no client SDK to any package registry. The company raised roughly $22M disclosed (a $1M angel round from Shaun Coleman, then $21M in June 2017 from Sequoia Capital, Shasta Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners), flew suborbital prototypes from Mojave and Spaceport Camden, and won a $3.4M U.S. Air Force ASLON-45 mission in August 2019 that was cancelled days later on solvency grounds. Sequoia withdrew support in August 2019, Cantrell departed, operations halted, and Vector filed Chapter 11 in Delaware on 13 December 2019; Lockheed Martin took the GalacticSky assets by default for $4.25M when no qualified competing bid appeared, and a separate bidder took the launch-vehicle assets. A relaunched entity under Robert Spalding re-emerged on 29 October 2020, shareholders voted a wind-down in January 2021, and the residual business was finally absorbed on 26 February 2026 when Phantom Space — Jim Cantrell's later company — acquired Vector's remaining assets, engineering data, tooling and intellectual property to accelerate its Daytona launch vehicle. Nothing of Vector's own web presence survives: vector-launch.com is a dormant GoDaddy-registered holding domain that fails TLS name validation and returns 404 on every path, and the earlier vectorspacesystems.com brand domain lapsed and now redirects off-domain to an unrelated gambling site. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 4.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Acquired, Aerospace, Space, Launch-Services, Small-Satellites, Satellite, Rockets, Software-Defined-Satellites, Deep-Tech

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