[ifinnegan]

Interesting.

[Carl Vehse]

Why launch a rocket from such a northern latitiude? The rocket does not get as much added velocity from the Earth’s rotation as, say, launching from Florida or nearer the equator.

[KC_Lion]

Alaska Ping.

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[fella]

First launching of the “Household Atomics”?

[ZOOKER]

Launching to the south, that would suggest a polar orbit (assuming it achieves orbit).

And yes, it would take more fuel launching that way, you lose 1000 mph, but you can see what's going on at the poles.

[BenLurkin]

Very ineresting

[ASOC]

Small launch platform

The cofounder of the Vector rocket company, James Cantrell, said this week that he is 100 percent confident that his Vector-R vehicle will launch this year. This launch will occur from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, carrying a payload of two PocketQube satellites and an Alba Orbital deployer.

"My confidence level is 100 percent," Cantrell said during a telephone interview with Ars on Thursday. "Not to pick on them, but we don't work on SpaceX schedules. We can't afford to run a business like that. We're not giving you schedules that we know we can't live with."

Vector has completed the first successful flight test of its new micro rocket

The company's two-stage Vector-R launcher (the R stands for "rapid") uses three LP-1 engines to lift the rocket off the pad, and it can deploy a payload with a maximum of 66kg into orbit. A later variant, the Vector-H (heavy), will have the capacity to deploy up to 110kg into space.