Satellite and spacecraft manufacturing
Airbus OneWeb Satellites
The high volume satellite factory established at Space Florida’s Exploration Park in 2016 as Airbus OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture of Airbus and OneWeb, and now operated by Airbus U.S. Space and Defense. The state authority records more than 600 satellites produced at the plant, an investment through the Spaceport Improvement Program, its conduit finance and leasing structure, and a $75 million expansion financed through the same conduit [SFAIRBUS][WOWS][MDIVE].
- Entity type
- company
- Kind
- company
- Lane
- Satellite and spacecraft manufacturing
- Place
- Exploration Park, Merritt Island, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 2019
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2019 · 2019: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
- Role
- satellite factory
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. The Exploration Park satellite factory, now operated by Airbus U.S. Space and Defense.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 1
- Betweenness
- 0.0000 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SFAIRBUS] [WOWS] [MDIVE]
Connections
Public finance and investment
- funds ←Spaceport Improvement Programthe infrastructure program invests in the Exploration Park satellite factory, which the authority finances and leases through its conduit structure [SFAIRBUS]2016 onward