Spaceports, ranges and pads
Cape Canaveral Spaceport
The Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station portion of the Brevard County statutory territory, which s. 331.304(1) allows to be referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport. The same subsection also names Patrick Space Force Base, which stays outside the named portion and is linked to the legislature directly [FS331304][SFLEG24].
- Entity type
- statutory named territory
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- 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
- named portion of the Brevard statutory territory
- Cutoff status
- Designated territory
- Status as of the cutoff
- Designated. The portion of the Brevard County statutory territory under s. 331.304(1) that the statute allows to be referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport: Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Launch activity sits on those component installations.
- Entity status
- designated
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- statutory designation over operating installations
- Statutory territory
- Brevard
- Legal basis
- s. 331.304(1), F.S.: Brevard County property within the 1998 boundaries of Patrick Space Force Base, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station or Kennedy Space Center. The statute provides that the territory within Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station may be referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport.
- Statutory status
- active statutory designation
- Operational status
- not an operator; launch activity sits on its component installations
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 4
- Betweenness
- 0.0339 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [FS331304] [SFLEG24]
Connections
Legal designation and public authority
- administers territory ←2006 onward
- designates ←Florida Legislaturestatutory spaceport territory under s. 331.304(1); the node is the portion of the Brevard County territory, Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, that the statute allows to be referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport [FS331304]before 2024
- statutory component of ←Cape Canaveral Space Force Stationthe statute names the Space Force station within the portion referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport [FS331304]1949 onward
- statutory component of ←Kennedy Space Centerthe statute names the NASA center within the portion referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport [FS331304]1962 onward