Space Services, Inc. of America is a space services company that provides star naming services as well as space memorial services through its subsidiary company, Celestis. [1] Though today it buys secondary payload space on third-party commercial rockets such as Falcon I, Taurus, and Spaceloft XL, in the 1980s the company conducted test flights of several in-house rockets.
In 1982, their Conestoga 1 rocket became the first privately funded rocket to reach space. Their last launch attempt, a Conestoga 1620 rocket, was launched in 1995, but broke up 46 seconds into its flight. The parent company, EER, subsequently folded and the Conestoga program was cancelled. [2]