Agencies and government
Florida Department of Transportation
The state agency that treats space as a mode of transportation, partners on the Spaceport Improvement Program and, under the 2024 statute, may fund spaceport discretionary capacity improvement projects at up to full cost [SB968ER][SFBO26].
- Entity type
- state agency
- Kind
- agency
- Lane
- Agencies and government
- Place
- Tallahassee, Leon County
- Hub region
- Panhandle and the capital
- Founding year
- 1969
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2012 · 2012: Florida Department of Transportation funds Spaceport Improvement Program (2012 onward)
- Role
- state transportation agency
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Funds spaceport capacity projects with Space Florida.
- 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
- 2
- Betweenness
- 0.0034 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SB968ER] [SFBO26]
Connections
Legal designation and public authority
- authorizes ←CS/SB 968 (2024), spaceport territoryauthorizes the department to fund spaceport discretionary capacity improvement projects at up to full cost [SB968ER]2024
Public finance and investment
- funds →Spaceport Improvement Programthe department is the funding partner [SFBO26]2012 onward