--- title: Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home... description: The US Space Force wants a third heavy-lift launch site running by 2030 to ease pressure on bases in Florida and California. Those two bases have launched... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/inside-the-pentagon-the-pressure-is-on-to-find-a-home-for-a-new-spaceport-nnp7ent3q twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport | daily.dev og:description: The US Space Force wants a third heavy-lift launch site running by 2030 to ease pressure on bases in Florida and California. Those two bases have launched... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/inside-the-pentagon-the-pressure-is-on-to-find-a-home-for-a-new-spaceport-nnp7ent3q og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NNP7eNT3q.png og:image:alt: Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The US Space Force wants a third heavy-lift launch site running by 2030 to ease pressure on bases in Florida and California. Those two bases have launched rockets for nearly 70 years. Officials have not yet decided where the new spaceport should go or how to acquire land. Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of Space Systems Command, called the 2030 timeline aspirational, noting the site must account for orbital regimes, safety, access to commodities and nearby residents. An August Trump administration policy endorsed building more launch and reentry sites. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why does the US Space Force want a third launch site by 2030? A third heavy-lift launch site would relieve pressure on the existing Florida and California bases, which have launched rockets for nearly 70 years. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink cited a congressionally mandated study finding a need for a site capable of heavy and super heavy launch. Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant called the 2030 target aspirational given siting challenges. _Those tracking US space infrastructure expansion can follow spaceport siting developments on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Pentagon buyer: We’re happy with our launch industry, but payloads are lagging](https://daily.dev/posts/pentagon-buyer-we-re-happy-with-our-launch-industry-but-payloads-are-lagging-mb6jsbahl) · Ars Technica · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [SpaceX is spending $100bn on a second Starbase, on an old Exxon site in Louisiana](https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-is-spending-100bn-on-a-second-starbase-on-an-old-exxon-site-in-louisiana-aygfh2wrt) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [NASA's Artemis Faces a Complex Path to Lunar Landing](https://daily.dev/posts/nasa-s-artemis-faces-a-complex-path-to-lunar-landing-xj2wfy1fl) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [With another record broken, the world’s busiest spaceport keeps getting busier](https://daily.dev/posts/with-another-record-broken-the-world-s-busiest-spaceport-keeps-getting-busier-ncnwqe87q) · Ars Technica · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/inside-the-pentagon-the-pressure-is-on-to-find-a-home-for-a-new-spaceport-nnp7ent3q) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/inside-the-pentagon-the-pressure-is-on-to-find-a-home-for-a-new-spaceport-nnp7ent3q","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/inside-the-pentagon-the-pressure-is-on-to-find-a-home-for-a-new-spaceport-nnp7ent3q"},"datePublished":"2026-10-23T19:54:13.033Z","dateModified":"2026-10-23T19:54:39.105Z","description":"The US Space Force wants a third heavy-lift launch site running by 2030 to ease pressure on bases in Florida and California. 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