Government
BY ANNA MANESS
Williamson County is no longer partnering with Burnet County to create a Central Texas Spaceport Development Corporation and is instead explor- ing a partnership with the city of Cedar Park, a Williamson County o cial told Community Impact July 22. Cedar Park is home to Fire y Aerospace, the rst commercial company to successfully land on the moon. The company’s testing facility is located in Briggs, which is within Burnet County. Explained An SDC is a type of partnership that develops, manages and operates a spaceport—a specialized launch and landing facility for spacecraft, rockets Williamson County eyes Cedar Park for spaceport
“We are very excited to partner with the county and build on the successes of Fire y Aerospace’s and other innovative businesses in Cedar Park to keep reaching for the stars.” JIM PENNIMAN MORIN, CEDAR PARK MAYOR
Williamson County has turned to the city of Cedar Park for a potential partnership to form the Central Texas Spaceport Development Corporation.
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and satellites, Community Impact previously reported. How we got here O cials originally presented the Central Texas SDC as a partnership between Williamson and Burnet counties. Williamson County commissioners approved the
bylaws for the Central Texas SDC on March 11, the same day Burnet County commissioners took no action on approving the Central Texas SDC’s bylaws. When the bylaws were placed back on the Burnet County Commissioners Court’s April 8 agenda, o cials took no action a second time. If created, the Central Texas SDC would be the sixth SDC in Texas.
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