Spaceports, ranges and pads
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The Space Force station whose launch complexes host the eastern range providers; the port authority and the range operator both treat it as the working face of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport [PORTCAN][USSF45][FS331304].
- Entity type
- federal launch installation
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Cape Canaveral, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1949
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1949 · 1949: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station statutory component of Cape Canaveral Spaceport (1949 onward)
- Role
- the Cape launch site
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Host of the station launch complexes in commercial use on the Eastern Range; Launch Complexes 39A and 39B sit at Kennedy Space Center.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Statutory territory
- Brevard
- Legal basis
- s. 331.304(1), F.S.
- Statutory status
- within the s. 331.304(1) territory
- Operational status
- operating federal launch installation
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 3
- Betweenness
- 0.0255 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [PORTCAN] [USSF45] [FS331304]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- operates site ←United States Space Forcethe service owns and operates the Cape station [USSF45]1949 onward
Legal designation and public authority
- statutory component of →Cape Canaveral Spaceportthe statute names the Space Force station within the portion referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport [FS331304]1949 onward
Public finance and investment
- funds ←Spaceport of the Futureannounced range modernization, $1.3 billion approved through 2028 [SN100] [PORTCAN]2025 to 2028