JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A private space startup has been keeping its head down until it revealed a sleek aircraft-assisted rocket set to begin launching missions for the U.S.
Space Force from Jacksonville. The kicker? It’s all autonomous.Aevum was founded in Hunstville, Alabama in 2016 by Jay Skylus and rolled out the Ravn X aircraft rocket carrier at Cecil Space Port Thursday.Skylus, who grew up in Alabama, told WKMG he founded the company to improve people’s lives.
Specifically, Skylus founded the company to help improve military communication for soldiers overseas.The company name is a scholastic philosophy term referring to the mode of existence of angels and saints or for this space startup, the area between Earth and space.“If you exist.