Bill Gates-backed EarthNow satellite firm will boost Space Coast manufacturing

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    MERRITT ISLAND — An emerging manufacturing hub for satellites and rockets near Kennedy Space Center is already getting a boost from a new player called EarthNow that is planning to build many more satellites there.

    A startup based in Seattle, EarthNow says it will use OneWeb’s new plant on Merritt Island to build a network of several hundred camera satellites to monitor the Earth “in real time.” Read more here.