MDA plots return to Kodiak, packing launchers

A THAAD missile launches in 2015. File photo: MDAThe Kodiak launch complex has some repeat business from a big customer: the Missile Defense Agency. MDA announced yesterday it’s awarding a contract worth up to $80 million to the Alaska Aerospace Corporation to test its THAAD interceptors at Kodiak.
The agency launched missile targets from Kodiak a decade ago, but Alaska Aerospace CEO Craig Campbell says this work will be very different.
“That was done all by contractor