aid: vector-launch name: Vector Launch description: >- 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. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vector-launch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml x-harvest-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/vector-launch_stock/ x-type: company x-source: harvest:secondary-market x-tier: stub x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface x-status: defunct x-founded: '2016-02-18' x-bankruptcy-date: '2019-12-13' x-shutdown-note: >- Halted operations August 2019 after Sequoia Capital withdrew support; filed Chapter 11 in the District of Delaware on 13 December 2019. GalacticSky sold to Lockheed Martin; launch-vehicle assets sold separately. A relaunched entity re-emerged 29 October 2020 and its shareholders voted a wind-down on 11 January 2021. x-acquired-by: Phantom Space x-acquisition-date: '2026-02-26' x-acquisition-note: >- Phantom Space (phantomspace.com), founded by Vector's original CEO Jim Cantrell, acquired Vector Launch's remaining assets and intellectual property on 26 February 2026 in an undisclosed eight-figure deal funded by a previously unannounced Series B, stating that ~80% of the acquired assets accelerate its Daytona launch vehicle. Phantom Space is not currently a separate record in this network; it is a harvest lead, not a redirect target for this profile. x-domain-status: dormant x-domain-note: >- vector-launch.com remains registered through 2027-02-18 behind Domains By Proxy at GoDaddy but serves nothing: HTTPS fails certificate name validation (curl error 60) and plain HTTP answers 404 on every path including /, /robots.txt and all /.well-known/* locations. The predecessor brand domain vectorspacesystems.com has lapsed and been re-registered by an unrelated party — it now 302s to https://www.dolar138.com/, an Indonesian gambling site — so it is deliberately NOT wired as a Website pointer. galacticsky.com matches the GalacticSky product name but is an unrelated third-party site and is not Vector's. See well-known/vector-launch-well-known.yml. deliveryModel: model: unknown open_source: false commercial: false callable_host: false label: Delivery model not determined — company is defunct and shipped no callable surface confidence: low source: - none generated: '2026-09-02' method: derived specificationVersion: '0.23' created: '2026-09-02' modified: '2026-09-02' tags: - Company - Defunct - Acquired - Aerospace - Space - Launch-Services - Small-Satellites - Satellite - Rockets - Software-Defined-Satellites - Deep-Tech tags_raw: - Company - Defunct - Acquired - Aerospace - Space - Launch Services - Small Satellites - Satellite - Rockets - Software Defined Satellites - Deep Tech apis: [] maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com - FN: APIs.json email: info@apis.io common: [] x-coverage: state: none reason: defunct detail: >- Vector Launch filed Chapter 11 in December 2019 and its residue was absorbed by Phantom Space on 26 February 2026, so its own host vector-launch.com is now a dormant holding domain that fails TLS name validation and returns HTTP 404 on every path — root, robots.txt, /openapi.json and all /.well-known/* — while the earlier vectorspacesystems.com brand domain has lapsed and redirects to an unrelated gambling site. evidence: - url: http://vector-launch.com/ status: 404 - url: http://vector-launch.com/robots.txt status: 404 - url: http://vector-launch.com/openapi.json status: 404 - url: http://vector-launch.com/llms.txt status: 404 - url: http://vector-launch.com/.well-known/agent-card.json status: 404 - url: https://vector-launch.com/ status: 000 - url: https://vectorspacesystems.com/ status: 200 - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/vector-launch status: 404 - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/galacticsky status: 404 - url: http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=vector-launch.com* status: 429 - url: https://forgeglobal.com/vector-launch_stock/ status: 403 checked: '2026-09-02' x-enrichment: date: '2026-09-02' status: nochange artifacts_added: 1 pass: local-v1