Spaceport Camden

With an ideal location on the coast of Georgia bordering northeast Florida, Camden County is strategically positioned to be one of the most important commercial spaceports in the United States. Once approved, Spaceport Camden will be the only exclusively vertical, non-federal range on the East Coast. The history of Camden County, Georgia as a launch site dates back to the 1960s where during the height of the Apollo program, Camden County was considered as a potential launch site. This information was officially declassified in 2005. The Thiokol Corporation tested the world’s most powerful rocket engine in preparation for flights to the moon. These tests were done on the exact site of the proposed spaceport. As a result, Camden County, Georgia was declared the “Gateway to Space” and shared an issue of Life Magazine with Frank Sinatra. In 2013 and 2014, Camden County was visited by two now major space companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin. Both companies were interested in the Apollo test site for their next generation of launch vehicles. SpaceX was considering Camden as an East Coast launch site location and Blue Origin was looking for launch sites on the East Coast for their new project, Project Panther. Blue Origin named Camden County a top finalist for Project Panther, a $200 million investment which would have made Camden County the launch site for their orbital launch vehicles and the associated manufacturing facility. Unfortunately, Camden County did not have a launch license. However, these events alerted the Camden County board of the special opportunity for their county and the state of Georgia. Since then, numerous companies in the aerospace industry have shown and continue to show interested in the launch site. Our vision: to develop a successful world class spaceport through a public-private partnership that establishes Camden County as the Commercial Space Center of the United States.