Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land

President Donald Trump signed a national space transportation memorandum that mandates building additional spaceports on federal land to accommodate over 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030. The policy replaces the 2013 Obama directive and reflects the surge to 176 U.S. orbital launches last year, driven primarily by SpaceX’s 165 Falcon 9 missions and five Starship sub-orbital tests.