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Cedar Park highlights Firefly milestone, Spaceport Development Corporation progress and semiconductor recruitment push
Summary
Economic development staff updated the board on Firefly’s Blue Ghost mission, the launch of a Central Texas Spaceport Development Corporation effort, a new Plug and Play semiconductor vertical in Cedar Park, and workforce and sector priorities including AI, semiconductors and reskilling programs.
Scott Smith, an economic development official, told the board that Cedar Park’s recent work with Firefly has attracted international attention and that the city is building on that momentum to recruit space- and tech-related investment.
"Path to the stars is no longer limited to nations alone. Firefly is building the road to the next frontier, 1 mission and 1 dream at a time," Smith said, describing Firefly’s Blue Ghost mission and the company’s ties to Cedar Park. He said Blue Ghost transmitted more than 119 gigabytes of data during its mission and that Firefly already has additional missions contracted, including a roughly $179,000,000 contract tied to a future mission.
Smith and other staff described ongoing work to organize a Central Texas Spaceport…
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