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New Mexico Lawmakers Want New Space Development Agency in State

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New Mexico Lawmakers Want New Space Development Agency in State
A Sabre short-range ballistic missile launches in June 2017 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, for a test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement, an advanced missile defense system. Hypersonic missiles might be able to penetrate PAC-3 and similar systems. (U.S. Army photo by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command)

Two senators and three representatives from New Mexico are pushing for the Pentagon to consider the southwestern state for the future home of the Space Development Agency. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich were joined by Reps. Ben Ray Luján, Debra Haaland and Xochitl Torres Small, all Democrats, in a March 18 letter to Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to co-locate the SDA in New Mexico, which is “already home to many of the nation’s core space assets and has…

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