Capital, finance and authority
Space Florida
The state authority that finances, leases and develops spaceport property, designates the research consortium, and states $2.14 billion in private investment attracted for space transportation projects as of March 2024 [SFLGOV][SFPASS][SFCON][SFKUI].
- Entity type
- state spaceport authority
- Kind
- agency
- Lane
- Capital, finance and authority
- Place
- Exploration Park, Merritt Island, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 2006
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2006 · 2006: Space Florida administers territory Cape Canaveral Spaceport (2006 onward)
- Role
- aerospace finance and development authority
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. The state's aerospace finance and spaceport authority.
- 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
- 13
- Betweenness
- 0.2317 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SFLGOV] [SFPASS] [SFCON] [SFKUI]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- manages property →Launch and Landing Facilitythe state authority manages the former Shuttle runway and leases it to tenants [SFKUI]2015 onward
Legal designation and public authority
- administers territory →Cape Canaveral Spaceportthe authority develops and leases property across the spaceport [SFLGOV] [FS331304]2006 onward
- administers territory →Homestead Air Reserve Base statutory spaceport territorythe authority's territory extends to the new Miami-Dade designation [SFLGOV] [SB968AN]2024 onward
- administers territory →Tyndall Air Force Base statutory spaceport territorythe authority's territory extends to the new Bay County designation [SFLGOV] [SB968AN]2024 onward
- administers territory →Cecil Spaceportthe authority's spaceport system includes the horizontal launch territory [SFLGOV] [FS331304]2010 onward
- administers territory →Space Coast Regional Airport and Spaceportthe authority's spaceport system includes the Titusville territory [SFLGOV] [TITUS]2020 onward
- administers territory →Cape San Blasthe authority lists the Gulf County property in the spaceport system [SFLGOV] [SFLEG12]before 2024
- administers territory →Eglin range complexthe authority lists the range complex in the spaceport system [SFLGOV] [FS331304]before 2024
- administers territory →Patrick Space Force Basethe authority lists the Brevard County territory in the spaceport system [SFLGOV] [FS331304]2006 onward
- designates →Spaceport Improvement Programthe authority and the department establish the infrastructure program [SFLGOV] [SFBO26]2012
Research, education and workforce
- designated by ←Florida University Space Research Consortiumdesignated by the authority's board as the state's official space research entity on 7 November 2024 [SFCON]2024
Person role
- formerly led ←Frank DiBellopresident and chief executive officer [SFKUI]2009 to 2023
- leads ←2023 onward