Blue Origin to build $160M space payload facility, create 6-figure salaries

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    "excerpt": "Blue Origin plans to construct a 140-foot-tall payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that will create an estimated 23 new jobs boasting average salaries of $115,000. This 125,000-square-foot structure will improve upon and expand Blue Origin's mission capabilities, Space Florida Chief Investment Officer Ronald Lau said Wednesday, Aug. 26, during the agency's Investment Committee meeting. The private space company's total capital investment on the project should clock in at $160 million, Lau said. To support construction, Space Florida management proposes allocating up to $2.5 million in matching-grant funding via the Florida Department of Transportation's Spaceport Improvement Program. The Space Florida board of directors should cast funding votes in early September. Space Florida President and CEO Rob Long said pre-launch payload processing remains “a critical enabler” and an area of needed growth to assure access to space, including national security and exploration activities from the Space Force installation and NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center. “It’s one of the key gaps that are out there,\" Long said. On the topic, All Points Logistics, which is headquartered on Merritt Island, landed a $250 million Space Force contract last month to design and build a large spacecraft processing center at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. In...",
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