Florida’s Space Coast Lands New Addition
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Merritt Island, Fla.—OneWeb Satellites LLC broke ground on an estimated $85 million manufacturing project in Exploration Park, Fla. If everything stays on schedule, the facility will be engaged, by year-end, in high-volume assembly line production of orbital satellites, the first such facility in the world.
The developer is a joint venture between OneWeb, a satellite-based Internet provider, and Airbus Americas, the U.S.-based operation of Airbus, the European aerospace and defense giant.
The facility will be a build-to-suit/leaseback of about 100,000 square feet on 12.5 acres, located directly across Kennedy Parkway from NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center, Dale Ketcham, chief of strategic alliances for Space Florida, which is supporting the project, told Commercial Property Executive….
