Target 2030: How the White House Plans to Turn American Space Launching into a Daily Routine
Inside the White House executive action aiming to scale domestic launches to 1,000 per year by 2030, and the commercial aerospace players set to benefit.

Washington is officially putting the pedal to the metal in the commercial space race. President Donald J. Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum establishing an ambitious national goal to achieve more than 1,000 commercial space launches and reentries from American soil every year by 2030. The executive action overhauls federal space policy by repealing outdated transportation guidelines in favor of a commercial-first framework designed to eliminate regulatory red tape and unleash private aerospace capacity.
Reaching four-figure annual launch numbers in under five years represents a massive operational leap from the roughly 180 launches conducted nationwide in 2025. To close that gap, federal agencies under the coordination of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios are tasked with systematically clearing administrative bottlenecks. The directive orders the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration to accelerate environmental reviews, carve out priority airspace corridors for launch operations, and modernize range scheduling systems. Furthermore, the Secretaries of Transportation, Interior, War, and the NASA Administrator must identify new federal lands suitable for commercial spaceports within 90 days.




