New Mexico will now compete with Georgia in the emerging commercial space race.
An Arizona-based aerospace company will test launch a sub-orbital rocket as soon as this summer from a 400-acre site on the Georgia coast that could become the Peach State’s first commercial spaceport.
Vector Space Systems over time could invest up to $100 million in commercial rocket launches and an assembly plant in Camden County, south of Savannah, Ga., and near Jekyll and Cumberland islands. Vector expects Camden…