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Alaskan Space Port Prepares for First Launch

Posted by michael on from the space-port-has-a-nice-ring-to-it dept.

dlkf writes: "The Kodiak Launch Complex on the Alaskan coast, run by the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation is scheduled, weather permitting, to send an Athena-1 booster with 4 NASA and Air Force science experiments into orbit tonight. If successful, Alaska will become just the fourth state (California, Florida and Virginia are the others) to send rockets into earth orbit. For more info, read this."

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  1. Alaska? by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are they trying for polar orbits or what? I had thought the launch bonus you get from launching near the equator made it much less economical to head towards the poles.

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    Dyolf Knip