Starfighter F-104G

The NASA Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Florida is the operational home of Starfighters, Inc.'s fleet of Lockheed F-104 Starfighters. The F-104 is a supersonic, mid to high alititude, fighter aircraft capable of sustained high positive acceleration loads (Gz) and rapid climbs from sea level to altitudes in excess of 40,000ft. Under a cooperative Space Act Agreement the company has flown a varied array of test missions ranging from NASA sponsored Pathfinder Trajectories for Orbital and Sub-Orbital Flight Environmental Impact Studies, Autonomous Flight Safety Systems with INS and GPS Termination Measuring payloads & Station High Sensitivity Ocean Research Experiments using Multi-Spectral Filter Array Imagers.