Universities and research
Florida Institute of Technology
The Melbourne university founded to teach the technical workforce of the missile range, a member of the consortium and a founder of C-STARS [FITCON][WFIT].
- Entity type
- university
- Kind
- organization
- Lane
- Universities and research
- Place
- Melbourne, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1958
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2024 · 2024: Florida Institute of Technology named in forming C-STARS, Center for Science, Technology and Advanced Research in Space (2024)
- Role
- consortium member
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Joined the consortium after the charter designation.
- 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
- 0.0000 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [FITHOME] [FITCON] [WFIT]
Connections
Research, education and workforce
- member of →Florida University Space Research Consortiumjoins after the charter designation [FITCON]2025
- named in forming →C-STARS, Center for Science, Technology and Advanced Research in Spacethe university is named among the consortium institutions that form the center in 2024 [FITCON]2024