{"id":22102,"date":"2023-04-25T01:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T01:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/spacex-wins-approval-to\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T01:29:09","slug":"spacex-wins-approval-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/spacex-wins-approval-to\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX wins approval to add fifth U.S. rocket launch site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Joey Roulette<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Space Force said on Monday that Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX was granted approval to lease a second rocket launch complex at a military base in California, setting the space company up for its fifth launch site in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Under the lease, SpaceX will launch its workhorse Falcon rockets from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, a military launch site north of Los Angeles where the space company operates another launchpad. It has two others in Florida and its private Starbase site in south Texas. <\/p>\n<p>A Monday night Space Force statement said a letter of support for the decision was signed on Friday by Space Launch Delta 30 commander Col. Rob Long. The statement did not mention a duration of SpaceX&#8217;s lease.<\/p>\n<p>The new launch site, vacated last year by the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance, gives SpaceX more room to handle an increasingly busy launch schedule for commercial, government and internal satellite launches.<\/p>\n<p>Vandenberg Space Force Base allows for launches in a southern trajectory over the Pacific ocean, which is often used for weather-monitoring, military or spy satellites that commonly rely on polar Earth orbits.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s grant of Space Launch Complex-6 comes as rocket companies prepare to compete for the Pentagon&#8217;s Phase 3 National Security Space Launch program, a watershed military launch procurement effort expected to begin in the next year or so. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Gerry Doyle)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/spacex-wins-approval-to\/illustration-shows-spacex-logo-and-elon-musk-silluete-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O010-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O010-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Space Force said on Monday that Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX was granted approval to lease a second rocket launch complex at a military base in California, setting the space company up for its fifth launch site in the United States. Under the lease, SpaceX will launch its workhorse Falcon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1213],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-22102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-business","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3O010-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22114,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions\/22114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}