{"id":34106,"date":"2016-08-16T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T03:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/officials-celebrate-near-completion-of-launch-complex\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T03:12:26","slug":"officials-celebrate-near-completion-of-launch-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/officials-celebrate-near-completion-of-launch-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials celebrate near completion of launch complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KODIAK \u2014<\/strong> Construction of the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak is near completion following a rocket explosion at the facility two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion, which damaged buildings and left behind debris, occurred following a test launch of a hypersonic weapon in August 2014. Testers destroyed the rocket after they detected an anomaly.<\/p>\n<p>Officials celebrated the complex\u2019s progress at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday, which included the unveiling of a newly rebuilt integrated processing facility, The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Alaska Aerospace Corporation, which operates the complex, called the rebuild \u201csubstantially complete.\u201d Craig Campbell said contractors just have to make a few finishing touches, but he expects the work to be complete by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still maybe a dozen or two dozen things that need to be finalized before (the constructors\u2019) contract is complete,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n<p>The company has already secured two launch contracts, with one launch of micro-satellites by Vector Space Systems expected by early 2017. The other contract is with the Missile Defense Agency for testing of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-ballistic missile system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KODIAK \u2014 Construction of the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak is near completion following a rocket explosion at the facility two years ago. The explosion, which damaged buildings and left behind debris, occurred following a test launch of a hypersonic weapon in August 2014. Testers destroyed the rocket after they detected an anomaly. Officials celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34106"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}