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Space

Space Force Outlines Vision, Requirements To Increase Assured Access To Space

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 21st, 2026

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Space Force Outlines Vision, Requirements To Increase Assured Access To Space

Pictured is a United Launch Alliance photo of its Vulcan Centaur lifting off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. on Feb. 12 at the start of the USSF-87 mission.

The Space Force this week released the first in a series of documents outlining its vision and requirements for boosting launches and assuring safe access to space from its spaceports in California and Florida. The first volume lists three priorities and related requirements for the Eastern and Western Spaceports and Test Ranges, including enabling each to support three major operations at the same time by fiscal year 2031, create a common operating picture between the ranges that includes common interfaces…

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