Alaska Aerospace owns and operates the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island near Narrow Cape, which will be the anchor for the 1,100-mile Pacific Test Range stretching southwest to Adak.

This morning on Aug. 22, the Alaska Aerospace Corporation confirmed in a press release that a successful government rocket launch occurred from the spaceport on Kodiak Island Thursday night.

The road to Fossil Beach through the spaceport was closed from 5 p.m. yesterday to 1 a.m. this morning due to what the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska calls “hazardous operations”. This closure is one of three so far that have been scheduled for this week.

Alaska Aerospace Corporation CEO John Oberst has retracted his statement that the request for information it published on Aug. 6 is related to the development of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome missile defense system.

John Oberst, the CEO and president of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation, said a multi-layered defense system that can intercept hypersonic missiles will require lots of test launches to develop.

The Tustumena is scheduled to depart Homer at 7 p.m. tonight and arrive in Port Lions at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow before continuing on to Ouzinkie and Kodiak.

Alaska Aerospace said in its lawsuit, filed in federal court on Thursday, that the cost to repair the damages and cleanup from last year's failed rocket test at the spaceport had reached at least $3.1 million.

Alaska Aerospace’s president and CEO, John Oberst, went on NBC’s the Today Show on Jan. 14 to discuss what is being described as a “traffic jam” at the country’s spaceports and how Alaska’s facilities could relieve that congestion.

The state Department of Transportation plans to enforce a two-week limit for all vehicles within the long term parking lot. DOT staff will issue notices or tags on vehicles that approach the limit and then relocate those vehicles to a nearby impound lot if they stay parked for more than 14 days.

When reached via email, Ashton Meier, the vice president of processing at Pacific Seafood, said the company is maintaining service with another carrier but the reduced number of shipping options in Kodiak is concerning.