White House Releases New Space Transportation Policy
The new policy puts commercial space at the center and sets a goal of more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030, officials said.
- On Thursday, Aug. 20, President Donald Trump signed a new National Space Transportation Policy establishing a government goal to support more than 1,000 rocket launches annually by 2030.
- This memorandum updates the 2013 policy, reflecting significant industry growth as commercial operators like SpaceX have driven U.S. launch cadences up more than 800% since 2015.
- NASA, the Department of Transportation , and the Department of Defense must identify new launch and reentry sites within 180 days of the memo's publication.
- To ensure resilient access to space during crises, the policy calls for evaluating barriers to achieving launch capabilities within 48 hours for national security missions.
- Beyond Earth, NASA is directed to facilitate commercial robotic access to Mars and develop architectures capable of carrying astronauts to the Martian surface and back to Earth.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum seeking a drastic increase in the number of commercial space launches and re-entrys in the U.S., his administration setting a target of at least 1,000 such operations annually by 2030, reports Reuters.
Trump signs new national space policy to enable 1,000 US rocket launches per year
The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights that lift off and land within its borders, and aims to expand the nation's capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.President Donald Trump just signed a new National Space Transportation Policy that lays out priorities for commercial, civil and national security missions to orbit. The memorandum, published Thursday (Aug. 20), introduces the first …
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