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Alaska Aerospace details Kodiak expansion, job impacts and tax, road and spill concerns
Summary
At a Feb. 26 Kodiak Island Borough work session, Alaska Aerospace General Manager Robert Green described plans to revive payload-processing facilities, expand operations that support roughly 50–53 local jobs and outlined logistics, tax and environmental mitigation questions raised by assembly members.
Robert Green, general manager of Alaska Aerospace Corporation, outlined the Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska’s operations and near-term plans at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly work session on Feb. 26.
Green told the assembly that since the spaceport began operations in 1998 the corporation has generated “about $600 million worth of work and income” for Alaska and directly supports roughly 50–53 jobs on Kodiak. He said the port averages one to three launches a year from Kodiak and also deploys personnel and instrumentation to support launches overseas.
The presentation described the site layout (LP1–LP3 and Area 3 commercial pads), launch control and instrumentation fields and a previously dormant payload processing facility the corporation plans to restore. "The…
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