Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport

Ars Technica · 2026-10-23 · Auto-collected and curated by AiEmy Cloud (AiEmy Cloud StAck)

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[Topic] Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
[Type] Internet Industry News
[Key points]
1. Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.
[Industries] Internet
[Source] Ars Technica (auto-collected by AiEmy Cloud / AiEmy Cloud StAck)

Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.

Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that have shot rockets into orbit for nearly 70 years.

The obvious problem with that ambition is 2030 is four years away, and Pentagon officials have not determined where the new spaceport should go or how to acquire land for it.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink first mentioned the service's search for a third launch base in May. A congressionally mandated study of the Space Force's launch infrastructure identified the need for "another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability," Meink said in a House Armed Services Committee hearing.

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