The Lawton Constitution by Richard Tribou - Orlando Sentinel
Could Elon Musk and SpaceX be set to drop $1.8 billion for new launch support facilities in Cape Canaveral?
Space Florida, the state’s aerospace economic development entity, isn’t saying just who wants to spend the money, but they are planning to discuss the secretive plan called “Project Hinton” at a meeting this week.
The agenda notes for Wednesday’s meeting outlined the project that will be a “high-volume production facility, high bay and launch infrastructure at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport.”
The price tag is greater than the $1 billion Jeff Bezos sunk into refurbishing Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 36 for his Blue Origin New Glenn rocket, so it falls in line with Musk’s plans for launching hundreds, and eventually thousands, of Starships a year in his quest to create a colony on Mars.
SpaceX already is trying to get Starship pads built at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A as well as pursuing a takeover of Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 37 that had been used by United Launch Alliance until this year’s final Delta IV Heavy launch. The Canaveral site is in the midst of an environmental impact study led by the Air Force, while the KSC site has one being run by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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https://www.swoknews.com/ap/national/space-florida-to-discuss-secretive-1-8-billion-cape-canaveral-launch-site-project/article_52662e7a-2457-5f1f-a2ff-1bd2c7406158.html
