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Could the Big Island soon be home to a spaceport? That's the plan from Alaska Aerospace Corporation. It proposes a small satellite launch facility in Keaau that it's calling the Pacific Spaceport Complex. The aerospace company says the rockets would have an average height of 40 feet and the area would have two launch pads. Activists- like the 600 members of Malama Hamakua- are upset about the idea.