Aac Attends National Aerospace Foreign Direct Investment Exposition
Anchorage, AK – An Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) business development delegation participated in the first National Aerospace Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Exposition held in Los Angeles October 26 to 28, 2015. AAC sponsored a booth in the exposition hall, held numerous meetings with companies interested in aerospace opportunities in Alaska, and presented a briefing on the evolving small satellite commercial market and […]
Rocket Lab Selects Alaska Aerospace Corporation Electron Launch Range Safety
Press Release From: RocketLab Los Angeles – November 3, 2015 Rocket Lab announced they have selected Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) to provide range safety support for their upcoming Electron launches in 2016. AAC’s core business area is space launch. It developed, owns, and operates the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska (PSCA), a state-of-the-industry spaceport that provides access to planetary orbital space for commercial and government […]
Kincaid Elementary Student Project Features Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska
Anchorage, AK – Tatym Doucet, a sixth grade student at Kincaid Elementary School in Anchorage, Alaska built a replica of the Launch Service Structure at the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSCA) as her class project. Tatym, who visits Kodiak each summer, was inspired for the project when she went out to visit the site. “When I was in Kodiak, we went out […]
Alaska Aerospace Corporation Awards Launch Facility Reconstruction Contract Davis Constructors
Anchorage, Alaska – Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) has selected Davis Constructors & Engineers, Inc. of Anchorage, Alaska as the General Contractor for reconstruction of the facilities damaged at the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSCA) from the launch vehicle failure in August 2014. The damaged facilities requiring reconstruction include the Launch Service Structure, Integration Processing Facility and the Spacecraft Assembly and Transfer […]
Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska Dedicates Launch Operations Control Center Honor Edward F
The Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSCA) today dedicated the Launch Operations Control Center (LOCC) in honor of Ed Allen. Mr. Allen started working at the Kodiak Launch Complex in 1998. As part of the early development team for the launch facility, his leadership and over 50 years expertise in the rocket launch business proved critical in resolving challenging problems with building […]
Aac and Garvey Spacecraft Deliver First Rocket Motor Kodiak
Anchorage, Alaska – Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) and Garvey Spacecraft Corporation (GSC) achieved an important milestone in their collaborative venture to path-find operations for a commercial nanosat launch vehicle at AAC’s Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSC-A) on Kodiak Island. Just one month after starting, the team worked through the logistics to enable GSC to ship a prototype first stage and then […]
Alaska Aerospace Corporation Announces 2015 Interns
Engineering students get experience in the Aerospace Industry Anchorage AK – Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC) welcomes two new engineering interns for the summer of 2015, Jason Sebring and Rocky Powers, both Mechanical Engineering majors attending the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. They were selected from a competitive field of highly qualified candidates. Jason served as an airborne infantryman in the U.S. Army for five […]