{"id":53628,"date":"2025-11-20T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53628\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:20:10","slug":"jaa-board-unanimously-approves-600k-for-reentry-license-at-cecil-spaceport-to-support-aerospace-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53628\/","title":{"rendered":"JAA board unanimously approves $600K for reentry license at Cecil Spaceport to support aerospace capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 There are some big changes coming to Northeast Florida skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Jacksonville Aviation Authority voted on Wednesday to allocate thousands of dollars into the growing Cecil Spaceport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The JAA board unanimously approved $600,000 in the budget to establish the reentry license project for the Cecil Spaceport. The funding will pay for updates to operational plans, safety and airspace analysis, and FAA coordination, and the readiness of commercial reentry operation at Cecil Spaceport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Chief Operating Officer Tony Cungo broke down why this is needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThink about a shuttle, but on a much smaller scale. Those vehicles will launch vertically from the cape, and land at Cecil Spaceport,\u201d Cungo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The vote came on the same day leaders cut the ribbon on a brand-new air traffic control tower and mission control center.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 There are some big changes coming to Northeast Florida skies. The Jacksonville Aviation Authority voted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32050,5433,116,5434,118,117],"class_list":["post-53628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-cecil-spaceport","tag-jaa","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-aviation-authority","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}