Rocket company’s Pinal Airpark test site benefits company, county
by David Wichner | Arizona Daily Star
Tucson mini-satellite-launch startup Vector has yet to break ground on a planned factory on Tucson’s south side where it plans to churn out hundreds of small rockets in the coming years.
But the company is quietly building a major rocket-engine test site in the creosote-scrub desert at Pinal Airpark after discovering the site by accident.
Vector CEO Jim Cantrell said he was having trouble finding a site to test the company’s small rockets, which for now are being built at a site at an industrial park near downtown.