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Space Systems Command Examining Future Spaceport Development Program

Space Systems Command Examining Future Spaceport Development Program
Pictured is a NASA photo of the Dec. 18, 2025 launch of the DoD Space Test Program S30 mission of four research and development satellites to low-Earth orbit (LEO) aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va. Dec. 18, 2025. Space Force, NASA, the Aerospace Corp. and Rocket Lab collaborated on the launch, according to Space Systems Command.

The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command's Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., is gathering industry input on a possible Spaceport Development Program (SDP). An SDP indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract would be to multiple companies and would "expand upon the current spaceport enhancements program and include support for RSLP missions and the DoD by combining objectives from previous editions of the program," according to a business notice last week. "The first objective of the SDP is to make…

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