Commercial Neighbors Stoke Space and Relativity Space Advance Make Progress on Cape Launch Sites

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26 Dec 2025


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NASASPACEFLIGHT - Along Florida’s Space Coast, two ambitious aerospace companies are rapidly transforming historic launch sites into modern facilities to support their upcoming reusable rockets.

Significant progress can be observed at Stoke Space’s Launch Complex 14 (LC-14) and Relativity Space’s Launch Complex 16 (LC-16), both located adjacent to each other at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Stoke Space’s Historic Revival at LC-14:

Moving north along the Space Coast, Stoke Space has been intensively refurbishing Launch Complex 14 — the same historic pad from which John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 during Project Mercury.

After more than 50 years of inactivity, the site is now nearing operational readiness for the company’s fully reusable Nova rocket.



Note:  Stoke Space is headquartered in Kent.

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