The Kodiak Launch center (also KLC) is a commercial rocket launching site at 57°26'09" northern latitude and 152°20'16" western length. It is on the island Kodiak within the range of Narrow Cape. The Kodiak Launch center belongs the Alaska Aerospace development corporation and is appropriate for the start of solid-propellant rockets. So far a small number of suborbitaler starts for military tests of the "Ballistic Missile Defense organization" (BMDO) took place as well as an orbital start. A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ...
Kodiak Island was advertised as one of the best locations in the world for polar launch operations, providing a wide launch azimuth and unobstructed downrange flight path.
The weather on Kodiak Island was similar to that of the northwest region of the U.S. with an average rainfall comparable to Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Kodiak was one of the busiest fishing ports in the U.S., and developed a sophisticated infrastructure to support that industry.
A commercial spaceport at Narrow Cape on Kodiak Island, about 400 km south of Anchorage, Alaska, and 40 km southwest of the city of Kodiak.
Kodiak Island is one of the best locations in the world for polar launch operations, providing a wide launch azimuth and unobstructed downrange flight path.
The inaugural orbital launch from Kodiak (following three Air Force suborbital launches) of an Athena I carrying four small satellites, PICOSat, PCSat, Sapphire, and Starshine 3, delayed two weeks because of the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington and then because of a massive solar flare, took place Sep. 29, 2001.
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