Spaceports, ranges and pads
Launch and Landing Facility
The former Shuttle Landing Facility, managed by Space Florida and leased to commercial tenants, including the Amazon satellite processing complex [SFKUI][AMZKUI][SNKUI].
- Entity type
- runway and licensed launch and reentry site
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1976
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1976 · 1976: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
- Role
- former Shuttle runway, operated by Space Florida
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Managed by the state authority and leased to commercial tenants.
- 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
- 3
- Betweenness
- 0.0473 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [FAASLF] [SFKUI] [AMZKUI] [SNKUI]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- leases ←Amazon Leo, formerly Project Kuiperlease at the Launch and Landing Facility using the authority's lease structure agreement [SFKUI] [AMZKUI]2023 onward
- manages property ←Space Floridathe state authority manages the former Shuttle runway and leases it to tenants [SFKUI]2015 onward
Industrial production and service
- lands at ←Space Shuttle programthe final mission lands on Runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility on 21 July 2011 [NASASTS135]to 2011