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Why Spacex Is Ramping up Its Florida Staff While Cutting Hundreds Of Why SpaceX is ramping up its Florida staff while cutting hundreds of workers in California Elon Musk roundup: How SpaceX layoffs will affect L.A., Florida, Redmond locations It's no secret that SpaceX has a lot of irons in the fire as it continues to innovate the space industry, but the rocket business is not only hard — it's also expensive. That's why the company is laying off 10 percent of its staff in California. However, it's still hiring in Florida. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SpaceX planning massive expansion of rocket facilities on Florida's space coast SpaceX is looking to build new facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Environmental impact documents reveal proposal for a launch control tower up to 300 feet tall and a massive processing facility for its rockets, among other buildings. "We are seeking to expand our capabilities and streamline operations to launch, land and re-fly our Falcon family of rockets," SpaceX spokesman James Gleeson said in a statement. Michael Sheetz | @thesheetztweetz Published 2:49 PM ET Fri, 8 June 2018 Updated 4:55 PM ET Fri, 8 June 2018 CNBC.com SpaceX planning massive expansion of rocket facilities on Florida's space coast 4:47 PM ET Fri, 8 June 2018 | 00:37 SpaceX is looking to build several new facilities at NASA's historic Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including a state of the art launch control center and a massive processing facility for its rockets, according to environmental impact documents filed to NASA in April. Florida Today first reported the news Friday. The documents reveal Elon Musk's space company is proposing a 133,000 square foot rocket processing and storage facility, a control center up to 300 feet tall for launches and landings, a "rocket garden" to show off the company's "historic space vehicles," a new security office and a 280,000 square foot utilities yard. The proposed buildings and associated parking would all be on a piece of land nearly one mile long by a half mile wide. Close-up map of the proposed SpaceX operations area "As SpaceX's launch cadence and manifest for missions from Florida continues to grow, we are seeking to expand our capabilities and streamline operations to launch, land and re-fly our Falcon family of rockets," SpaceX spokesman James Gleeson said in a statement. The company is fresh off the debut of an enhanced version of its Falcon 9 rocket, called Block 5. SpaceX launched and landed its first Falcon 9 Block 5 on May 11, with Musk announcing plans for this new rocket to achieve a host of new milestones for SpaceX, including launching and landing the same rocket twice in 24 hours – as early as next year. SpaceX is aiming for at least 24 launches this year, on pace to shatter its record 18 successful launches completed in 2017. The company has already completed 11 launches – including the debut of Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket in the world. President and COO Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC in May the company expects lower demand in 2019, with about the same number of launches expected as 2017. While SpaceX has several facilities across the U.S., its little wonder that the company would find it attractive to expand in Florida. The space coast represents the majority of SpaceX launches throughout its history but the current company's largest rocket processing facility at Kennedy is about a third the size of the processing facility proposed in the report. "Commercial space is real; it's here and it's getting bigger," Dale Ketcham, vice president of government relations at economic development agency Space Florida, told CNBC. "The private sector is asserting itself in the space domain." Map of the proposed SpaceX facilities near NASA's visitor center SpaceX now dominates the global market of orbital rocket launches, which the U.S. had seceded to Russia and Europe until last year. Launching nearly every other week ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// NEWSPACE GAINING MORE REAL ESTATE AT KENNEDY 1 Artist’s depiction of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Image Credit: James Vaughan / SpaceFlight Insider CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space Florida, the aerospace economic development agency of the State of Florida, will be meeting in Tampa in the next week to provide some $18 million of state money to help Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) and Blue Origin, LLC, to develop new facilities at Kennedy Space Center. On the meeting agenda is an item titled “FDOT Project Palmer/SpaceX,” proposes $14.5 million toward SpaceX’s Launch and Landing Control Center tower, located in the as-yet un-budgeted SpaceX Operations Area, and a hangar for the new Falcon Heavy rocket. As was noted on Florida Today, $3.4 million would go to the rocket manufacturing site Blue Origin is developing in Exploration Park, located near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) would reimburse SpaceX and Blue Origin for those specified amounts. Overall, the department budgeted $31 million for improvements in Kennedy Space Center’s infrastructure, and more than $100 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Photo Credit: Mark Usciak / SpaceFlight Insider Most of this will go not to the construction of the facilities themselves, but to support infrastructure such as roads and utilities that would benefit tenants or guests around the sites. SpaceX has committed to investing $15 million of its own money, and Blue Origin $30 million, to those efforts, and much more to the overall projects. Blue Origin has committed to $200 million toward its New Glenn rocket factory, which is now almost complete, and launch complexes 36 and 11 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where the company will launch its orbital New Glenn rocket. The first launch is planned for 2020. SpaceX’s expansion is expected to add 90 jobs, paying $75,000 a year. Blue Origin’s plans will add 330 jobs with a salary of $89,000. Space Florida’s work should create 50 jobs with a salary of $75,000. In all, this work will create at least 140 jobs at Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 and holds a contract, along with Boeing, in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The company has already launched several successful unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station, and its Falcon 9 rocket is the first rocket in history to launch, deploy its payload into orbit, and then return to land vertically on either an Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship or near its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force’s Landing Zone 1. These recent announcements come at a time when SpaceX is seeing growing support by customers in need of launch services. The Hawthorne, California-based company recently was awarded some $130 million to launch the U.S. Air Force’s AFSPC-52 mission atop a Falcon Heavy rocket. If everything goes as planned, that mission should be launched in the middle-to-late 2020. Due to the classified nature of the mission, it has not been announced what the payload is. However, the following statement was made via a release: “The competitive award of this EELV launch service contract directly supports Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) mission of delivering resilient and affordable space capabilities to our Nation while maintaining assured access to space,” said Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Air Force program executive officer for Space and SMC commander. The company plans to launch more than 20 missions this year. Eventually, it could launch as many as 60 rockets a year—more than twice the number of flights in the optimistic schedule originally envisioned for NASA’s Space Shuttle. Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos. Originally the company focused on suborbital flights, but the New Glenn rocket is an orbital launch vehicle designed to ferry astronauts in its Space Vehicle. Space Florida is also working with other companies to convert the Space Shuttle Landing Facility into a runway for commercial use, called the Space Florida Launch and Landing Facility. Tagged: Blue Origin Space Florida SpaceX The Range COLLIN SKOCIK Collin R. Skocik has been captivated by space flight since the maiden flight of space shuttle Columbia in April of 1981. He frequently attends events hosted by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, and has met many astronauts in his experiences at Kennedy Space Center. He is a prolific author of science fiction as well as science and space-related articles. In addition to the Voyage Into the Unknown series, he has also written the short story collection The Future Lives!, the science fiction novel Dreams of the Stars, and the disaster novel The Sunburst Fire. His first print sale was Asteroid Eternia in Encounters magazine. When he is not writing, he provides closed-captioning for the hearing impaired. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida. RELATED READING SPACE FLORIDA SEEKIN G FUNDING TO HELP SP ACEX MODIFY LC - 39A KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — T h e O r l ando Sentinel has reported that Space Florida, the state’s space business development organization, is helping SpaceX obtain funding from the Florida Department of Transportation. The $5 million would help the Hawthorne, California - based company modify LC - 3 9 A a t Kennedy Space Center. .
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