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Satellite and spacecraft manufacturing

Amazon Leo satellite processing facility

The 100,000 square foot payload processing facility at Space Florida's Launch and Landing Facility, announced at $120 million in July 2023 with up to 50 jobs at an average wage of $80,000, expanded by a $19.5 million, 42,000 square foot support building, and stated at full capacity to process more than 100 satellites a month and support three simultaneous launch campaigns [SFKUI][AMZKUI][AMZEXP][SFN139].

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Entity type
processing facility
Kind
facility, site or pad
Lane
Satellite and spacecraft manufacturing
Place
Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County
Hub region
Space Coast
Founding year
2023
Florida space year and timeline placement
2023 · 2023: Amazon Leo, formerly Project Kuiper builds Amazon Leo satellite processing facility (2023; 2024)
Role
satellite processing facility
Status as of the cutoff
Operating. The facility processes and prepares satellites and ships them to the launch sites; it does not manufacture them.
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
7
Betweenness
0.1309 on the full graph · 0.0376 on the industrial relations subgraph
Sources
[SFKUI] [AMZKUI] [AMZEXP] [SFN139]

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