Terran Orbital will Construct a Satellite Plant on Merritt Island
This week’s announcement that Terran Orbital will construct a giant “Industry 4.0” satellite-manufacturing plant on Merritt Island has raised prospects for economic development in southeast Volusia County and beyond.
With Terran Orbital joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as leaders of the commercial space industry locating operations at Kennedy Space Center, the bust that came with the end of the U.S. space shuttle program has now swung back to boom. Communities such as Oak Hill and Edgewater are already seeing impacts, while Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach also figures prominently in developing the workforce and spinoff companies.