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Trump pushes federal land spaceports to hit 1,000 annual launches

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Source: Ars Technica
Trump pushes federal land spaceports to hit 1,000 annual launches
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Trump’s new national space transportation policy directs NASA and the Pentagon to boost launch and reentry capacity to 1,000+ per year by 2030 by identifying additional federal lands for new spaceports and reentry sites, improving range scheduling and airspace management, and pursuing a third heavy-lift site for resiliency. It also supports expeditionary/rapid-launch concepts and streamlined permitting, with SpaceX expanding Starship pads at Cape Canaveral and Kennedy as part of growing private-sector capacity.

Topics:nationspace-policy#cape-canaveral#heavy-lift#space-policy#spaceports#spacex
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  1. Trump’s space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land  Ars Technica
  2. Trump Announces a New Policy for a ‘Golden Age of Space Transportation’  The New York Times
  3. Trump to transform spaceflight from spectacle to status quo targeting 3 launches per day  Fox News
  4. White House space policy directs agencies to send humans to Mars  The Washington Post
  5. New space transportation policy focuses on increased launch rates  SpaceNews

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