Investor Brief
Ownership
Country
🇺🇸United States
Region
North America
Established
1,969
Launches / Year
26
Years Active
57
Strategic Position
65.1200° N, 147.4700° W
About
The world's only university-owned scientific rocket launching facility and the largest land-based sounding-rocket range on Earth. Sited beneath the auroral oval, it launches instrumented rockets directly into active aurora — a measurement no orbital asset can substitute for. More than 1,700 launches have been conducted since 1969.
Key Features
Only university-owned rocket range on Earth
Sited beneath the auroral oval — rockets fly into live aurora on human-in-the-loop go calls
Very large uninhabited downrange footprint permitting high-apogee flights (~1,500 km)
Co-located SRI PFISR incoherent-scatter radar and optical/all-sky instrumentation
Rockets That Launch Here
Companies Operating Here
Orbit Types
Notable Launches
PolarNOx (2026-01-30)
GNEISS (2026-02-10, two rockets 30s apart)
FOXSI-5 (May 2026, Black Brant IX)