The government will also identify potential locations for additional launch facilities in the United States, improve integration of space launch and reentry operations into airspace and air traffic control modernization efforts, and designate “priority airspace for critical space launch corridors.”
More specifically, the White House is directing the Department of the Interior to identify federal lands to serve as an additional designated federal land reentry site. This comes after the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a request for public comment last month regarding the potential use of submerged lands and abandoned offshore oil rigs for sea-based space launches and reentry activities.
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