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Launch providers and vehicles

Blue Origin

The company that manufactures and launches in the same county: nearly 4,000 Brevard employees, more than $2.3 billion invested across 500 Florida suppliers since 2015, and 11 sites across Brevard and Orange counties [BOFL][SFBO26]. Stated by the state authority and by the company as the only company that both manufactures and launches rockets in Florida.

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Entity type
company
Kind
company
Lane
Launch providers and vehicles
Place
Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral, Brevard County
Hub region
Space Coast
Founding year
2015
Florida space year and timeline placement
2015 · 2015: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
Role
launch provider and manufacturer
Cutoff status
Operating company; launches suspended
Status as of the cutoff
Operating company; New Glenn launches suspended at the cutoff while Launch Complex 36 is repaired after the 28 May 2026 static fire explosion. A $600 million expansion is announced.
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
8
Betweenness
0.0556 on the full graph · 0.0073 on the industrial relations subgraph
Sources
[BOFL] [SFBO26] [FAANG] [OSLC36]

Connections

Property, facility and development

Industrial production and service

Commercial disclosure

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