But Kodiak is only good for polar and high-inclination orbits such as sun-sync. Those azimuths are likely to constitute a majority of Vector’s missions. But Vector needs somewhere else to do equatorial and low-inclination launches.

Vector’s recent deal for use of LC-46 at Canaveral should accommodate it as it moves into testing and then on to operational launches. But USAF only recently broached plans to support up to 48 launches per year from Canaveral by ca. 2020. SpaceX, ULA and Blue Origin will likely be using up most of those launch opportunities in 2020 and might even have shut any other launch operators out by then unless USAF continues to push its capacity to support launches well beyond the 48/year level in the next decade.

Vector needs at least one other Atlantic Coast launch site. Thus it’s interest in the nascent Camden, Georgia spaceport. Wallops already exists, but is crowded, further north of the Equator than either Canaveral or Camden and has NIMBY-ish neighbors close by.

And this Camden deal may well not be Vector’s last.