In other business next Wednesday, Space Florida will introduce a series of code-named projects including “Pine,” involving a company that would use KSC’s former space shuttle runway “for aerospace operations.”
Another secret project, Blue Heron, would finance new facilities and equipment for an unspecified company, with no dollar amount disclosed yet.
The Space Florida Board of Directors will meet and review a number of projects that involve SpaceX, Blue Origin rocket testing, the Jacksonville Aviation Authority and the common use of infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center, as well as deals in progress under code names Project Forge, Project Pine, Project Blue Heron and Project Made In Space. That’s at 1:30 p.m., The Westshore Grand, 4860 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. Call-in Number: 1-866-528-2256, code: 2120278.
At a board meeting Wednesday in Tampa, the state agency responsible for aerospace economic development approved loaning $1.5 million to a company identified only by the code name Project Forge, described as a contender to win contracts under a NASA program developing lunar landers.Space Florida also committed to spending up to $1 million to upgrade utilities at Kennedy Space Center’s former space shuttle runway to support test flights — as soon as early 2019 — by another unidentified company, referred to as Project Pine.