Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska

The northern U.S. state of Alaska is home to the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska which is used for launching both military missiles and commercial rockets. This remote U.S. launch base, previously known as the "Kodiak Launch Complex," is owned by the U.S. state-owned Alaska Aerospace Corporation and is located on Kodiak Island. After the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska opened in 1998, numerous U.S. satellites have already been launched into space by various types of rockets. In November 2021, a commercial rocket from the space company Astra also put some small satellites into space for the first time from the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska.

The Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska has some launch complexes from where different types of rockets can be launched. In addition to launching small satellites, the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska can also be used for testing military ballistic missiles and sounding rockets. The main launch complex at this launch base features a seventeen-story assembly building and associated clean room in which to prepare satellites for their mission. In 2016, the Alaska Aerospace Corporation entered into a contract with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) that allowed military missiles to be tested from this launch base. Thus, in 2019, on behalf of the Israeli Air Force and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), several Arrow III interceptor missiles were launched and tested from this launch base that successfully disabled "enemy" missiles. From the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska, Athena I and Minotaur 4 rockets have already been launched in the past, launching several satellites such as the NanoSail-D2 solar sail and the Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) into space.