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Virginia space launch2/12/2024 ![]() The $14.5 million approved by the Florida Legislature this year will pay for reconfiguring an idle U.S. With its massive Cape Canaveral facility and employee base already in place, Florida has notched commitments from Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace and Planet Space of Chicago to conduct human spaceflight missions, she said, adding that the state is aggressively pursuing Orbital Sciences. Space Florida is pursuing 50 space-related companies to move to Florida or expand their businesses in the state, said Deb Spicer, vice president of Space Florida’s corporate communications and external affairs. SpaceX already has agreed to launch from Florida. ![]() The Dulles, Va.-based company and Space Exploration Technologies ( SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., are working with NASA to develop a commercial cargo launch vehicle under its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. Those laws, Dunstan said, give Virginia and Florida an advantage over other states trying to pull in commercial spaceflight business.īoth states hope to cash in on Orbital’s development of a launch vehicle to take cargo to the space station after the space shuttle is retired in 2010. Virginia was first to pass a limited liability law last year – the Virginia Space Liability and Immunity Act, which has been in effect since July 1, 2007.įlorida followed suit this year with the Florida Informed Consent for Spaceflight Act, which goes into effect “Keep your eye out, I think both legislatures are going to try to keep one-upping each other next year as well.”ĭunstan cited three areas in which states can have a major impact on attracting commercial space business: establishing limited liability legislation for companies involved in human spaceflight, tax incentives and launch infrastructure development. “There’s a new space race going on and it’s going on at the state level,” said space law attorney James Dunstan of Garvey Schubert Barer in Washington. Air Force launch pad, while the Virginia General Assembly approved a $16 million bond package for infrastructure upgrades at Wallops. The Florida Legislature allocated $14.5 million to reconfigure an idle U.S. Lawmakers in both states committed millions of dollars this year forĭuring legislative sessions marked by large overall budget cuts triggered by the nationwide economic downturn. “The playing field, if you will, is pretty level.” “Neither of us has everything in place,” said Billie Reed, executive director of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority that owns the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va. In the Wallops Island region, which provides jobs on the Eastern shore of both Virginia and Maryland. Meanwhile the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority plans to expand the economy The agency’s three remaining orbiters have been a major source of jobs Space station and other destinations in low Earth orbit.įlorida’s space authority, Space Florida, is turning to the commercial launch industry to help mitigate the expectedĮmployment and economic losses that will occur as NASA retires the space shuttle fleet in 2010. Opportunities such as transporting people and supplies to and from the international Trying to capitalize on the anticipated growth in the emerging The two states vying to become the primary launch site for Orbital Sciences Corp.’s planned Taurus 2 rocket are sinking money into infrastructure and creating tax incentives in an effort to boost their chances of bringing new business to their respective spaceports.
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