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Starfighters Space Joins C-STARS Consortium to Advance Space Manufacturing and Research at Kennedy Space Center
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 22, 2026--Starfighters Space, Inc. ("Starfighters" or the "Company") (NYSE American: FJET), a commercial aerospace company operating the world’s fastest fleet of supersonic aircraft, today announced that it has joined the Center for Science, Technology, and Advanced Research in Space (C-STARS), a proposed National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry–University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) focused on advancing space manufacturing and training the next generation o
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