Capital, finance and authority
Spaceport Improvement Program
The Space Florida and Florida Department of Transportation program that has funded 48 major infrastructure projects since 2012, leveraging more than $531 million in state investment to attract $3.3 billion in private industry funding [SFBO26][EOG26]. It is the mechanism by which private plants land on public range property.
- Entity type
- infrastructure investment program
- Kind
- program
- Lane
- Capital, finance and authority
- Place
- Exploration Park, Merritt Island, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 2012
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2012 · 2012: Space Florida designates Spaceport Improvement Program (2012)
- Role
- state infrastructure finance program
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. 48 projects funded since 2012.
- 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
- 6
- Betweenness
- 0.0943 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SFBO26] [EOG26]
Connections
Legal designation and public authority
- designates ←Space Floridathe authority and the department establish the infrastructure program [SFLGOV] [SFBO26]2012
Public finance and investment
- funds ←Florida Department of Transportationthe department is the funding partner [SFBO26]2012 onward
- funds →2015 onward
- funds →Amazon Leo satellite processing facilitythe project benefits from the state's spaceport financing tools [SFBO26] [SFKUI]2023
- funds →2026
- funds →Airbus OneWeb Satellitesthe infrastructure program invests in the Exploration Park satellite factory, which the authority finances and leases through its conduit structure [SFAIRBUS]2016 onward