Space Coast (Brevard)
Brevard County's Space Coast anchors one of the world's busiest launch corridors and a deep aerospace and defense base.
Organizations
Accelerate Brevard: Chamber of Innovation
Brevard County's chamber of innovation supporting the Space Coast business, tech, and startup community.
Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast
The official economic development organization for Brevard County, Florida's Space Coast.
Florida Institute of Technology
A STEM research university on the Space Coast.
Florida SBDC at Eastern Florida State College
No-cost small business consulting and training for Brevard County, part of the Florida SBDC Network.
Groundswell Startups
Nonprofit high-tech incubator and coworking space for Space Coast founders in Melbourne.
Kirenaga Partners
Venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies emerging from the Space Coast.
Legacy Angel Network
Membership-based angel investment group backing early- and growth-stage companies in Brevard County.
North Brevard Economic Development Zone
Public economic development agency advancing commerce and space-industry growth in north Brevard County.
Space Coast FabLab
Nonprofit makerspace and Fab Lab network member offering prototyping tools across the Space Coast.
Space Florida
Florida's aerospace economic-development agency.
weVENTURE Women's Business Center
SBA-funded women's business center at Florida Tech offering no-cost counseling, training, and the IGNITE 360 mentoring program.
Startups
Sidus Space
Sidus Space designs, builds and operates low-cost, rapidly scalable satellites and delivers space-based data and predictive analytics as a mission partner from concept to low Earth orbit.
Vaya Space
Vaya Space develops orbital launch vehicles powered by vortex-hybrid rocket engines that burn recycled-plastic (HDPE) fuel grains, targeting both commercial and defense small-satellite launch.
Industry players
Airbus OneWeb Satellites
Airbus OneWeb Satellites operates a Merritt Island factory in Exploration Park billed as the world's first high-volume satellite production facility, capable of building up to two satellites a day and now wholly owned by Airbus.
Blue Origin (Merritt Island)
Blue Origin (HQ Kent, Washington) operates a major Space Coast presence on Merritt Island, including a 750,000-square-foot factory building its heavy-lift New Glenn rockets and a new Blue Moon lunar-lander plant.
Embraer Executive Jets (Melbourne)
Embraer's Melbourne campus is the U.S. headquarters of its Executive Jets unit and the final-assembly site for Phenom and Praetor business jets, opened in 2011.
L3Harris Technologies
L3Harris is a Melbourne-headquartered defense technology prime contractor spanning space and airborne systems, communications, avionics and electronic warfare, formed by the 2019 merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation.
Northrop Grumman (Melbourne)
Northrop Grumman's Melbourne site is a 17-building, 109-acre campus adjacent to Orlando Melbourne International Airport where the company designs, develops and tests advanced manned aircraft and battle-management command-and-control systems.
Sidus Space
Sidus Space is a Merritt Island-headquartered Space-Infrastructure-as-a-Service company that manufactures satellites (its LizzieSat line), space hardware and AI/ML-based space data products from a 35,000-square-foot facility.
SpaceX (Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center)
SpaceX (HQ Starbase, Texas) runs major Florida launch and manufacturing operations at Cape Canaveral SLC-40 and Kennedy Space Center LC-39A, and is building Starship launch and factory infrastructure at KSC's Roberts Road.