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A residential beach city named for the space age
Satellite Beach took its name from the space program next door, and it grew up as a place where people who worked at the Cape and the base came home at night. It is still mostly residential: neighborhoods, schools, parks, and the beach, without the hotel strip you find farther north in Cocoa Beach.
It sits between Indian Harbour Beach to the south and Patrick Space Force Base to the north. The boundaries with Indian Harbour Beach are easy to miss from A1A, but the two are separate cities. Shop them as neighbors, not as one place.

