In Wenchang the many hotel projects under construction near the launch centre suggest a different approach.
Kodiak contains a satellite launch centre (opened 1998), the only such nonfederal facility in the United States.
It will be launched from China's Jiuquan satellite launch centre in Inner Mongolia aboard a Long March 2D rocket.
Initial scepticism at the launch centred around what makes the PMD Pro different from existing project management qualifications.
The launch took place between 9.30am and 9.35am local time at the Sohae satellite launch centre in Tongchang-ri on the north-west coast of North Korea, reports said.
The launch was the first to be held at a new space launch centre in Wenchang, a city in the southern province of Hainan.
China launched a pioneering "hack proof" quantum communication satellite, called Quantum Experiments at Space Scale, on 16 August from its older Jiuquan launch centre in the Gobi Desert.
They too had big plans a few years ago for a tourism spin-off from the launch centre about 200km (125 miles) away, deep in the desert, from which the recent spacewalk mission was launched.
To finance and operate the Ariane rocket and to commercialize space launch services with it, ESA set up Arianespace in March 1980 and gave it responsibility for operating the launch centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
Then there is a send-off breakfast – cold meats and bread with Russian champagne – which you have before you fly off from Star City to the launch centre in Kazakhstan".
