Former launch. (Photo courtesy of AAC) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A successful launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation took place on Friday. That’s according to Craig Campbell, president and CEO of AAC. Campbell confirms that the company had their first successful commercial launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska late Friday afternoon, the end of the window to launch. It was the …

Plans for the Mill Bay AHFC development. The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation has two projects in the works in Kodiak. Daniel Delfino is the director of planning and program development at the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation. “Both of those properties, the first one, Mill Bay in 2017, and then Spruce Cape in 2018, went through a statewide competition and they …

(Photo Courtesy of Sadie McCusker) There is a new Friday event in Kodiak. Sadie McCusker is the Kodiak Rodeo State Fair Board President. The organization hosts the Friday Fling events.   “The Saturday Farmers Market just wasn’t working out.” said McCusker. “So, we were inspired by Palmer’s Friday Fling, they hold a fling every Friday up there. And so we …

A French chef visiting Kodiak Island holds up a freshly caught salmon. (Photo Courtesy of Joel Chenet.) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A group of French chefs have been traveling around Kodiak Island to learn about Alaska wild salmon. They have been meeting with local seafood processors in hope of sourcing king and coho salmon for import back to France where they plan …

  Amanda Lancaster, an employee of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository in Kodiak, displays a beaded dance belt and cuffs, part of the Pinart Collection, on loan from the Museum Bologne-Sur-Mer on Monday, July 9, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Ancestral artifacts collected in the Kodiak Archipelago nearly 150 years ago have arrived back home. They are …

Xin Lyu, general manager for a seafood import/export company and CEO for Shanghai Hollywin Frozen Food snaps photos at a weir on the Buskin River near Kodiak on July 11, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT A delegation from China visited Kodiak Island this week with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, touring fish processing plants in Kodiak and Larsen Bay. …

(Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT.) An overview of rock fish being sorted by workers at the Trident Seafoods plant assembly line in Kodiak, Alaska on Saturday May 27, 2018. Tuesday, the Trump administration proposed 200 billion dollars in new tariffs on China, upsetting markets worldwide. Michael Kohan, with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, says those new tariffs include some that may …

An example of what the exhibit redesign could look like (Image Courtesy of Baronov Museum.) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak’s Baranov Museum has met their fundraising goal for their permanent exhibits redesign and facility upgrade project. Sarah Harrington, executive director of the Kodiak Historical Society and Baranov Museum, says the museum was awarded the final grant of $175,000 from the Rasmuson foundation on …

Dig Afognak camp on June 30, 2018. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KMXT) Daysha Eaton/KMXT” ob The island of Afognak, near Kodiak, was devastated by the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, which scattered its indigenous people to other parts of Alaska and the Lower 48. Many lost touch with their culture and language. But today, Afognak descendants are making sure a new generation …

Alaska Aerospace Corporation launch facility on Narrow Cape. (Photo courtesy of Alaska Aerospace Corporation) Daysha Eaton/KMXT The Alaska Aerospace Corporation launched a subsidiary, Aurora Launch Services, which will focus on providing support for customers to launch vehicles with smaller satellite payloads into orbit. And, it will also be cheaper, says Craig Campbell, President and CEO of AAC, because they won’t …