Saturday a.m. Update: Multiple former employees of the rocket company Vector in both California and Arizona have told Ars they were let go on Friday. Late Friday night, the company issued the ...

"Basically we’ve had to revise our development plan," said Cantrell, who had previously hoped to see Vector make its first space launch in 2018. "No rocket’s ever been late; we’ll probably ...

Vector isn't interested in reusing rocket parts to reach that price point. Instead, they're looking to scale up production massively (think "economies of scale"). The Vector team is based in ...

At one point, as technicians tinkered with their rocket, a wild pig sauntered across a nearby field. The no-frills setup for Thursday’s second test flight of the Vector-R rocket by Tucson-based ...