Spaceports, ranges and pads
Patrick Space Force Base
The base south of the Cape that headquarters the unit operating the Eastern Range, named in the spaceport territory statute [FS331304][SFLEG24][USSF45].
- Entity type
- federal installation within statutory spaceport territory
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Patrick Space Force Base, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1950
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1950 · 1950: Space Launch Delta 45 headquartered at Patrick Space Force Base (1950 onward)
- Role
- range headquarters
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Statutory spaceport territory; headquarters of the Eastern Range unit.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Statutory territory
- Brevard
- Legal basis
- s. 331.304(1), F.S.: Brevard County property within the 1998 boundaries of Patrick Space Force Base. The statute names Patrick in subsection (1) but does not include it in the territory that may be referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport.
- Statutory status
- within the s. 331.304(1) territory, outside the named Cape Canaveral Spaceport
- Operational status
- operating federal installation
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 3
- Betweenness
- 0.0533 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [FS331304] [SFLEG24] [USSF45]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- headquartered at ←Space Launch Delta 45the unit is headquartered at the base [USSF45]1950 onward
Legal designation and public authority
- administers territory ←Space Floridathe authority lists the Brevard County territory in the spaceport system [SFLGOV] [FS331304]2006 onward
- designates ←Florida Legislaturenamed in s. 331.304(1) as statutory territory; Patrick is not within the portion that may be referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport [FS331304]before 2024