Merritt Island's All Points Expands Its Spacecraft-Processing Footprint
All Points Logistics is developing a major spacecraft-processing and logistics complex near Kennedy Space Center while extending its Space Prep network beyond Florida.
One of the companies helping expand America's launch infrastructure is headquartered on Merritt Island.
All Points Logistics is developing a large, multi-user spacecraft-processing and logistics complex near Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, adding capacity for the satellites and payloads that have to be tested, fueled, integrated and prepared before they ever reach a launch pad.
The company calls the launch-support side of its business Space Prep. The idea is straightforward: give civil, commercial and national-security customers access to the specialized buildings and services they need between the factory and the rocket.
A 64-acre expansion at Kennedy Space Center
In April, All Points announced an agreement with NASA for 64 acres near Schwarz Road and State Road 3, about a mile south of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
The privately financed plan includes two major facilities:
- A 266,000-square-foot Spaceport Logistics Center
- A 275,000-square-foot Spacecraft Processing Center
Together, the buildings would provide more than half a million square feet for logistics, clean-room work, storage, integration and other pre-launch operations.
That is significant for the Space Coast because launch cadence is only one part of the capacity problem. More rockets also mean more spacecraft arriving in Florida, each needing secure space and specialized teams before liftoff.
The work that happens before a launch
Spacecraft processing is the less visible side of a mission. Depending on the payload, teams may perform inspections, electrical checks, fueling, software testing, integration and encapsulation inside a protective fairing.
Some of that work involves hazardous materials and tightly controlled clean-room conditions. A processing center therefore needs much more than an empty warehouse: high bays, filtered air, secure communications, specialized power and safety systems, and routes that can move delicate hardware toward the launch site.
All Points' launch-support overview describes its facilities as multi-user infrastructure, allowing more than one customer or mission program to use the network rather than requiring every company to build its own processing center.
A Brevard company with a wider reach
All Points was founded in 1997 and is headquartered on South Sykes Creek Parkway in Merritt Island. The service-disabled veteran-owned business also works in engineering, logistics, information technology, cybersecurity and modeling and simulation.
Its Space Prep operations extend beyond Florida. The company has announced payload-processing agreements that cover both the Cape Canaveral area and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, giving customers access to support near the country's two busiest launch coasts.
A multi-year agreement with Exolaunch, for example, includes processing services in both Florida and California.
That national footprint makes the local connection easy to overlook. The strategy, partnerships and expansion work are being driven by a company whose headquarters sits beside Sykes Creek.
Why the expansion matters here
The Kennedy complex could create more room for missions to move through the Space Coast without getting stuck waiting for specialized processing space. It also strengthens a part of the local space economy that exists between manufacturing and launch.
The next milestones to watch are construction timing, announced customers and local hiring tied to the new facilities. All Points has not yet published all of those details in one place.
Still, the direction is clear. As the number and complexity of missions increase, the infrastructure behind the pad has to grow with them. A Merritt Island company is positioning itself to build a meaningful part of that next layer.
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Claire Szewczyk
Claire has called Florida home for a decade, but her love of the Space Coast goes back further — to the beat-up Kennedy Space Center coffee table book she found in a thrift store when she was five. She writes about the people, places, and history that make Brevard County great, and those stories are where Brightside Brevard began.
