Aerospace & Space
Florida's Space Coast is one of the world's busiest launch corridors, anchoring a deep aerospace and space-tech cluster.
Organizations
Accelerate Brevard: Chamber of Innovation
Brevard County's chamber of innovation supporting the Space Coast business, tech, and startup community.
Actuate Ventures
Deep-tech and space-tech venture firm and venture studio backing early-stage founders.
Central Florida Tech Grove
Government-industry-academia collaboration space in the Central Florida Research Park accelerating modeling, simulation and training innovation.
Charlotte County Economic Development
The economic development office for Charlotte County, promoting business growth around Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, and the airport.
Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast
The official economic development organization for Brevard County, Florida's Space Coast.
Embry-Riddle Research Park (MicaPlex)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's 50,000-square-foot research park and incubator for aviation, space, and unmanned-systems startups.
eMerge Americas National Security 
Partner
eMerge Americas' national security platform connecting dual-use startups with government buyers, investors, and defense partners in Miami.
Florida Institute of Technology
A STEM research university on the Space Coast.
FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance
Greater Pensacola's economic development organization, with a stated focus on cyber, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
Fuel Venture Capital
Miami-founded venture capital firm investing seed through growth stage across technology sectors.
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.
National Center for Simulation
Nonprofit consortium promoting the modeling, simulation and training industry from Orlando's Central Florida Research Park.
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.
TechFarms
Panama City Beach technology incubator offering workspace, prototyping, and mentoring to early-stage hardware and tech startups.
Startups
Ondas Inc.
Ondas builds autonomous drone platforms and counter-drone systems, including the American Robotics Optimus drone-in-a-box for 24/7 automated ISR and security operations.
Redwire Space
Redwire is a space infrastructure company supplying sensors, avionics, payloads, solar arrays, in-space manufacturing and uncrewed systems to government and commercial customers.
Seagate Space
Seagate Space is developing mobile offshore ocean launch platforms designed around the demands of commercial small-launch operators.
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.
Terran Orbital
Terran Orbital designs and manufactures small satellites and spacecraft components for national-security, defense and commercial customers.
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.
HEICO Corporation
HEICO is a Hollywood, Florida-headquartered aerospace and electronics company that designs and manufactures FAA-approved replacement parts and mission-critical components for aviation, defense, space, and medical markets.
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.
Lockheed Martin (Orlando / Missiles and Fire Control)
Lockheed Martin's 260-acre Orlando campus is the home of its Missiles and Fire Control business, designing and manufacturing precision-engagement missiles, rockets and manned/unmanned combat systems for the U.S. military and allies.
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.
Redwire Corporation
Redwire is a Jacksonville-headquartered space infrastructure company supplying spacecraft components, solar arrays, digital engineering and in-space manufacturing and biotech platforms for civil, commercial and national-security customers.
RTX / Collins Aerospace (Largo)
RTX's Collins Aerospace operates a 450,000-square-foot Largo facility producing radars, satellite and secure-communications components and RF/digital defense products, backed by a 2026 $26.5M expansion.
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.
Terran Orbital
Terran Orbital is a Boca Raton-based manufacturer of small satellites and satellite components for U.S. and allied aerospace and defense customers, acquired by Lockheed Martin in 2024.