Spaceports, ranges and pads
Homestead Air Reserve Base statutory spaceport territory
The Miami-Dade County property that CS/SB 968 adds to statutory spaceport territory effective 1 July 2024: federal property that is part of Homestead Air Reserve Base, and former Homestead Air Force Base property deeded to Miami-Dade County or the City of Homestead. The designation creates the authority’s property, financing and infrastructure powers over the territory. It does not establish an operating launch site, a commercial tenant or a construction program, and none is recorded at this release [FS331304][SB968ER][SB968AN].
- Entity type
- statutory territory
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Homestead, Miami-Dade County
- Hub region
- South Florida
- Founding year
- 2024
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2024 · 2024: CS/SB 968 (2024), spaceport territory designates Homestead Air Reserve Base statutory spaceport territory (2024)
- Role
- statutory spaceport territory, designated 2024
- Cutoff status
- Designated territory
- Status as of the cutoff
- Designated. Statutory spaceport territory effective 1 July 2024. 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
- Miami-Dade
- Legal basis
- s. 331.304(6), F.S., added by chapter 2024-76, Laws of Florida: Miami-Dade County property formerly within the boundaries of Homestead Air Force Base and now within Homestead Air Reserve Base or deeded to Miami-Dade County or the City of Homestead, effective 1 July 2024.
- Statutory status
- active statutory designation, s. 331.304(6)
- Operational status
- 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
- 0.0005 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SB968AN] [CH202476] [SB968ER] [FS331304] [SFTERR]
Connections
Legal designation and public authority
- administers territory ←2024 onward
- designates ←CS/SB 968 (2024), spaceport territorydesignates Miami-Dade property at the reserve base as spaceport territory, effective 1 July 2024 [CH202476] [SB968ER]2024