Launch providers and vehicles
SpaceX
The provider flying Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A and Space Launch Complex 40, holding National Security Space Launch awards, and building Starship processing and launch facilities at Roberts Road, LC-39A and SLC-37 [WSPX][SFNNSSL][NSFSS][NASARR].
- Entity type
- company
- Kind
- company
- Lane
- Launch providers and vehicles
- Place
- Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 2007
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2007 · 2007: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
- Role
- launch provider
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Falcon flights from two Florida pads; Starship facilities under construction.
- 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
- 11
- Betweenness
- 0.0924 on the full graph · 0.0352 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SPXLAUNCH] [SPXF9] [WSPX] [SFNNSSL] [NSFSS] [NASARR] [NASA39AL]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- leases →Launch Complex 39Aa 20 year agreement signed with NASA on 14 April 2014 under which SpaceX operates and maintains the pad at its own expense [NASA39AL]2014 onward
- operates complex →2008 onward
- operates site →Roberts Road operations areaKennedy operations area for Falcon processing and Starship integration [NASARR] [NSFSS]2022 onward
- selected to redevelop →Space Launch Complex 37the Department of the Air Force record of decision of 20 November 2025 authorizes redevelopment of the complex for Starship-Super Heavy; no lease is recorded in a public source [DAF37] [SFSEIS]2024 onward
Industrial production and service
- awards contract to ←United States Space ForceNational Security Space Launch award [SFNNSSL]2025
- clears range for ←2010 onward
- develops florida facilities for →Starship and Super HeavySpaceX builds Florida production, integration and launch facilities for the vehicle; the facilities are under construction and no Florida launch is recorded [NSFSS]2026
- launch agreement with ←2024 onward
- manufactures →2010 onward
- manufactures →Falcon Heavythe provider designs and manufactures the vehicle and flies it from Florida [SPXFUG]2018 onward
- recovers for ←Port Canaveralbooster and fairing recovery through the port, 69 boosters and 165 fairings in 2024 [PORTSPACE] [PORTCEO25]2010 onward