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Space

White House Targets Support For 1,000 Launches Per Year by 2030

By Rachel Jewett

Friday, August 21st, 2026

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White House Targets Support For 1,000 Launches Per Year by 2030

Pictured is a SpaceX photo of the company's Falcon 9 launch of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer-B (T1TL-B) mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. on Sept. 10, 2025.

The White House set a target for the U.S to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 in a new National Security Presidential Memorandum released Thursday. That would be a massive jump increase in orbital launches over the next few years. In 2025, there were 193 orbital launches in the U.S. — 85 percent of which were SpaceX [SPCX]launches, according to BryceTech’s 2025 analysis. The White House called the new policy a “comprehensive, America First approach,” to…

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