Blue Origin breaks ground on an $80 million payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral

Blue Origin

Blue Origin broke ground on Monday 31 August 2026 on a payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The 120,000 sq ft building is a public-private partnership with the U.S. Space Force and is set to be the first commercial payload processing facility on Space Force property. Completion is expected by December 2027.

• The facility costs $80 million and covers 120,000 square feet.
• It has four payload processing bays and two encapsulation bays, where several payloads can be prepared for launch.
• It will serve both commercial and national security missions, with the Space Force as partner.
• Completion is expected by December 2027; the article gives no capacity figure for the building itself.