Spaceports, ranges and pads
Cape San Blas
The Gulf County launch site that s. 331.307 governs as the spaceport facility at Cape San Blas, subject to environmental conditions on the authority’s use. Gulf County is already statutory spaceport territory through the Eglin description in s. 331.304(2), so the county is counted once. One suborbital sounding rocket launch by a Space Florida predecessor is recorded in the legislative record and no orbital launch is recorded at this release [FS331307][SFLEG12].
- Entity type
- statutory spaceport facility
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Gulf County
- Hub region
- Panhandle and the capital
- Founding year
- 1997
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1997 · 1997: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
- Role
- statutory spaceport facility, Gulf County
- Cutoff status
- Designated territory
- Status as of the cutoff
- Designated. Statutory spaceport facility under s. 331.307. One historic suborbital sounding rocket launch is recorded in legislative history. No active orbital launch operation or spaceport construction program is recorded at the cutoff.
- Entity status
- designated
- Project status
- no project recorded
- Evidence class
- statutory designation without recorded launch activity
- Statutory territory
- Gulf
- Legal basis
- s. 331.307, F.S.: the spaceport facility at Cape San Blas in Gulf County, which the section governs separately and subjects to environmental conditions on the authority’s use. Gulf County is already statutory spaceport territory through the Eglin description in s. 331.304(2).
- Statutory status
- statutory spaceport facility, s. 331.307
- Operational status
- one historic suborbital launch; no active orbital launch operation or spaceport construction program recorded
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 2
- Betweenness
- 0.0007 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SFLEG12] [FS331307] [FS331304] [SFLEG24] [WCSB]
Connections
Legal designation and public authority
- administers territory ←Space Floridathe authority lists the Gulf County property in the spaceport system [SFLGOV] [SFLEG12]before 2024
- designates ←Florida Legislatures. 331.307, F.S., created by chapter 89-300, Laws of Florida; a separate statutory spaceport facility in Gulf County [FS331307] [SFLEG12]1989 onward