NASA solicits tiny satellite launch services

NASA today officially asked for proposals from companies interested in launching small rockets from Kennedy Space Center to send tiny satellites into space at a fraction of what big rocket launches cost. NASA is opening the door to what it calls "Venture Class," or V-Class, rockets that could be the size of the very earliest rockets the agency and its predecessor were launching in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They could be as small as 30 feet tall, and they'd be launched from a new pad NASA envisions constructing not far from the big 39-A and 39-B pads that were used for Saturn and space shuttle rockets. More

(Source: Orlando Sentinel - Jun 14)