Small satellites to launch from Kennedy Space Center beginning 2018

NASA announced Wednesday it has selected three companies to help the agency develop rockets that can deliver small satellites to space. Firefly Space Systems plans to test suborbital flights from new launch pad 39C at Kennedy Space Center in 2017. The Texas-based company is building a two-stage rocket named "Alpha." NASA is awarding Firefly $5.5 million to launch small satellites, and $6.9 million to a second company, Los Angeles-based Rocket Lab USA. Rocket Lab is developing the Electron rocket to send small satellites, called CubeSats, to space. The company is also considering using pad 39C, which KSC opened over the summer. More

(Source: News 13 Orlando - Oct 15)